Trump has called for a foundational Internet law known as Section 230 to be revoked — and conservatives are expected to continue that charge after he leaves office. But if the former president were to launch his own social network, a repeal of Section 230 could open him to legal jeopardy. Danielle Citron, a professor at the UVA School of Law, warned a repeal of Section 230 could leave Trump open to defamation lawsuits and an array of other possible charges.
“We don’t let people go into their garages and create nuclear materials,” said Danielle Citron, a UVA law professor and author of the 2014 book “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.” She’s one of the people who wants changes to Section 230, in part because social networks have so much potential to do harm when poorly run.
Even before the latest round of enforcement actions, Trump's campaign had reportedly considered focusing on some of these alternative social networks. But these services have nowhere near the reach of mainstream platforms like Twitter, which has hundreds of millions of monthly users, and Facebook, which has more than 3 billion monthly users across its various applications. "There are other places to go," said Danielle Citron, a UVA law professor and unpaid advisor to Facebook and Twitter who has long been vocal about how speech on social media platform can lead to real-world violence. "At the ...
President-elect Ulysses S. Grant refused to ride with President Andrew Johnson from the White House to the Capitol for the ceremony. When it was suggested that two carriages carry them separately, Johnson said he would simply not attend the ceremonies, remaining instead at the White House with friends and colleagues and signing last-minute legislation. “To me, he is much, much different from the two Adamses in that they truly were statesmen and they just had their reasons to be bitter. But they weren’t bad men,” said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia...
(Video) Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, discusses how Joe Biden and Attorney General appointee Merrick Garland will lead the Justice Department.
News of an emerging new strain of the novel coronavirus has led to many questions and concerns. In an effort to address some of these matters, Hamodia spoke with Dr. William A. Petri Jr., a chaired professor of infectious diseases and international health at the University of Virginia and vice chair for research in its Department of Medicine.
Even with COVID-19 vaccine efforts accelerating and moving into the next phase in some parts of the state, UVA Health experts say prevention efforts in the next several weeks will have a much larger impact on the trajectory of the pandemic.
(Co-written by Dewey G. Cornell, Virgil Ward Professor of Education at the School of Education and Human Development, director of the UVA Virginia Youth Violence Project and faculty associate of Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy) For years, schools have implemented policies and procedures designed to support students who show signs of harming themselves or others. The current challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting remote-learning environments, however, have left many school administrators and teachers wondering how to respond when threats of harm come to the...
(Commentary by Gerard Robinson, Fellow of Practice at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) This year gives about 463,000 of the more than 2 million Americans behind bars — and President-elect Joe Biden — a chance at a fresh start.
(Commentary by Aynne Kokas, professor of media studies) In an environment of increasing U.S.-China tensions, China's dominance presents a significant challenge to Hollywood studios seeking to recuperate revenue after bleeding red ink during the COVID-19 pandemic. President-elect Joe Biden's experience negotiating the 2012 U.S.-China film agreement with then-Vice Premier Xi Jinping makes him uniquely well-prepared to help Hollywood studios consider the China challenge.
(Commentary by Harry Harding, University Professor, professor of public policy and senior fellow in the Miller Center of Public Affairs) In my previous interview with Juan Zhang and Shannon Tiezzi, published by The Diplomat, I used suits of playing cards as metaphors for understanding the importance that Beijing assigns to different types of national power. In so doing, I built upon Samuel Huntington’s insight many years ago in “Political Order in Changing Societies” that the military could seize power in uninstitutionalized and unstable developing countries because in such societies, “clubs a...
For Nixon, the writing was on the wall weeks earlier that his administration would not survive, when three Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee announced that they would vote for his impeachment. When Nixon informed his family on Aug. 2 of his decision to resign, they implored him to reconsider. Three days later, however, a transcript of a June 23, 1972 conversation between Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, was released. As UVA’s Miller Center relates, that transcript, which became the "smoking gun" investigators were desperate to discover, proved that Nixon had lied when he i...
UVA Health says phase 1-B of vaccination will begin in a week or two. The system started its efforts at 175 vaccinations a day. Now it is up to nearly 1,000. UVA Health has volunteers working around the clock, giving shots seven days a week.
The right colon appears to age faster in Black people than in White people, perhaps explaining the higher prevalence of right-side colon cancer among Black Americans, according to results from a biopsy study. “Our results provide biological plausibility for the observed relative preponderance of right colon cancer and younger age of onset in African Americans as compared to European Americans,” wrote the investigators, led by Matthew Devall, a research associate at UVA’s Center for Public Health Genomics a.
UVA School of Engineering assistant professor Liheng Cai is developing a new synthetic rubber that is not stereotypical of durable materials that are stiff, heavy, and bulky. Cai’s lab is heeding the challenge of coming up with a new soft material that is “soft as a Jello-O or ice cream, or even as soft as biological tissues – but that contains no water or solvents”, according to Cai.
A survey from Reuters/Ipsos and the UVA Center for Politics found that while about one-third of Americans agreed that “America must preserve its White European heritage,” twice as many Republicans (44%) agreed as Democrats (22%). And whereas 38% of Republicans felt that racial minorities were “under attack” in the United States, 63% said the same of white people.
UVA researchers have found that a scalpel-free alternative to brain surgery has the potential to benefit people with Parkinson's disease symptoms that are much more severe on one side of the body.
In 1957 and 1958, William Faulkner was a writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia. During that time he held 37 conferences and answered more than 2,000 questions on a wide range of concerns. Almost every word uttered during these exchanges was recorded on tape, and the result is the classic “Faulkner in the University”, originally published in 1959.
Beginning Jan. 18, the University of Virginia’s Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is planning a series of virtual events lasting through Jan. 31, per a news release. The title of the Rev. Martin Lther King’s 1967 book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” is the theme of the 2021 Community MLK Celebration.
UVA and the Central Virginia Small Business Development Center are partnering to facilitate a community project-based learning program called Propel, which aims to address a wide range of business and technology problems, including market entry, marketing strategy and financial analysis. The initiative engages UVA student teams to support real-world project challenges faced by local small businesses, start-ups and nonprofit organizations.