When Anonymous Speech Meets Defamation Liability
Courts continue to refine the procedural threshold by which a plaintiff may unmask a pseudonymous online speaker.
Godwin's Law Review
Volume 9 · Issue 3 · May 2026
Featured Commentary · Platform Liability
Section 230 in the Age of Generative AI
As large language models begin to author the speech that platforms host, the once-stable contours of intermediary immunity grow uncertain. The doctrine of intermediary immunity, settled in the early jurisprudence of the open web, now confronts a technology that generates the very content it once merely transmitted.
Recent Commentary
The First Amendment Implications of Algorithmic Content Curation
Whether a recommendation algorithm constitutes protected editorial judgment is now the central question of platform speech doctrine.
Privacy Torts in the Era of Persistent Data
The common-law privacy torts, formulated for a world that forgot, strain against an architecture engineered to remember.
Fair Use and the Training of Large Language Models
The four-factor test, fashioned over decades of analog copying, confronts a use case that copies everything and remembers nothing in particular.
Geofence Warrants and the Fourth Amendment
A warrant that begins not with a suspect but with a polygon drawn on a map tests the particularity the Fourth Amendment was designed to require.
Public Records Requests and the Modernization of Government Transparency
Open-records regimes, designed for the filing cabinet, are being asked to carry the weight of database-scale inquiry.