Platforms, hosting and domains
The layers of the internet that can act on content, what each of them can and cannot do, and the order in which they should be approached.
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The escalation ladder: who can actually remove online content
Six layers of the internet can be asked to act on a piece of content. Each has different powers, different obligations and different failure modes, and approaching them in the wrong order is the most common way a removal effort collapses.
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Domain name disputes: the UDRP, .ke and .ae
Domain disputes are one of the few areas of internet law with a fast, cheap, genuinely effective procedure. It also has a trademark prerequisite that defeats most of the complaints people want to bring.