Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast

A special reminder that we will be doing episode 400 live on video and with audience participation on March 28, 2022 at noon Eastern daylight time. So mark your calendar and when the time comes, use this link to join the audience: https://riverside.fm/studio/the-cyberlaw-podcast-400 See you there!  For the third week in a row, we lead with cyber and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Paul Rosenzweig comments on the most surprising thing about social media’s decoupling from Russia—how enthusiastically the industry is pursuing the separation. Facebook is allowing Ukrainians to threaten violence against Russian leadership and removing or fact checking Russian government and media posts. Not satisfied with this, the EU wants Google to remove Russia Today and Sputnik from search results. I ask why the U.S. can’t take over Facebook and Twitter infrastructure to deliver the Voice of America to Facebook and Twitter users who’ve been cut off by their departure. Nobody likes that idea but me. Meanwhile, Paul notes that Th