Daphne Keller

Daphne Keller

Daphne Keller

  • Director of Program on Platform Regulation, Cyber Policy Center
  • Lecturer, Stanford Law School

Biography

Daphne Keller's work focuses on platform regulation and Internet users' rights. She has testified before legislatures, courts, and regulatory bodies around the world, and published both academically and in popular press on topics including platform content moderation practices, constitutional and human rights law, copyright, data protection, and national courts' global takedown orders. Her recent work focuses on legal protections for users’ free expression rights when state and private power intersect, particularly through platforms’ enforcement of Terms of Service or use of algorithmic ranking and recommendations. Until 2020, Daphne was the Director of Intermediary Liability at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society. She also served until 2015 as Associate General Counsel for Google, where she had primary responsibility for the company’s search products. Daphne has taught Internet law at Stanford, Berkeley, and Duke law schools. She is a graduate of Yale Law School, Brown University, and Head Start.

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PUBLICATIONS LIST

publications

Journal Articles
July 2022

Lawful but Awful? Control over Legal Speech by Platforms, Governments, and Internet Users

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Journal Articles
July 2021

The Future of Platform Power: Making Middleware Work

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cover link The Future of Platform Power: Making Middleware Work
Journal Articles
June 2021

Amplification and Its Discontents

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In The News

Commentary

Internet Free Speech with Daphne Keller

Following the election of another Liberal Government, free speech and censorship will soon be back on the table. On this week’s No Nonsense, Tech Law Expert Daphne Keller on the problems of regulating online content.
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The Sunday Show: The Bad News on Internet Freedom

Tech Policy Press Podcast with contributions from Daphne Keller
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Commentary

Five Big Problems with Canada’s Proposed Regulatory Framework for “Harmful Online Content”

Article from Tech Policy Press by Daphne Keller
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