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View More NewsIntermediary liability laws around the world recognize that social media platforms, search engines, and other online service providers have become an integral part of our lives: they shape how we access information, communicate with others and participate in public debate, and foster innovation online. These laws generally shield platforms, to varying degrees, from legal liability for user content: the responsibility for unlawful speech should rest primarily with the speaker, not with those who merely host it. These liability protections are not a gift for platforms. They exist so that platforms are not encouraged to proactively monitor and filter what we say online, or to remove even lawful speech simply to avoid legal risk. This is why a recent judgment by the EU Court of Justice, Coyote System (Joined Cases C-188/24 and C-190/24), is concerning: it could deprive online platforms of liability protection because of how they organize and disseminate user content. The consequences for…
Shortly after the Trump administration announced massive new tariffs on some Canadian imports on Monday, the White House’s official X account made a telling statement about the policy. “Canada imposed an unfair tariff scheme on American cars,” the post explained, before claiming that the tariffs had caused fewer cars to be imported into Canada and had been costly for American automakers. “President Trump won’t put up with Canada’s trade schemes,” it concluded. Yes, if there is one thing Donald Trump simply cannot stand, it is arbitrary, costly, protectionist trade policies. In response, Trump imposed some arbitrary, costly, and protectionist measures.…
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A review of Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov; 243 pages; Farrar, Straus and Giroux (April 2026)Omer Bartov, a prominent historian at Brown University, was born to a solidly left-wing Zionist family in Kibbutz ‘Ein Hahoresh, south of Haifa, in 1954. (By chance, I was also born in ‘Ein Hahoresh, six years earlier; also by chance, both of us did our IDF service in the Nahal (Infantry) Corps and both at some point were wounded. And both of us did our PhDs in Oxbridge in European history). Omer’s father, Hanoch Bartov, was born in Palestine in 1926 to Polish Jewish…
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