Yair Cohen, represents David Paisley, a former actor and prominent LGBT rights activist, who brought a defamation claim against Graham Linehan, a well-known television writer, in the English High Court.
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In the so called Hampstead Paedophile Hoax case. solicitor Yair Cohen represented a mother whose life was devastated by an online harassment campaign led by Sabine McNeill, a 75-year-old pensioner.
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Yair Cohen is the solicitor who represented TJM, a Royal Marine Officer, who faced defamatory allegations from West Yorkshire Police. His former partner accused him of controlling and coercive behaviour.
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YouTube deletes 2 news channels depriving 500,000,000 viewers of news choice YouTube has permanently deleted two news channels, which appear to have reported news in a manner disagreeable to YouTube. Both news channels, which between them share more than half a billion viewers are sister stations of Russian RT News. The news channels broadcast in
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The government will eventually, like it or not, police the internet. This is inevitable. The recently published White Paper which warned internet companies very clearly of its intention to set up a new internet regulator is an indication of what social media companies should expect to see in the future. How powerful this regulator will be, will largely depend on how genuine social media companies’ effort to combat intolerance, prevent self-harm and decrease the amount of fake news is.
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Internet police author Yair Cohen says I am often asked, how much of a responsibility do we as internet users have, to police the internet ourselves and decide whether we are going to watch certain images or share horror films of live events. After all, the more we share the more we encourage others to commit social media atrocities.
This is a very interesting question. It is easy to blame us, the people, for our part in watching and sharing horrific images via social media. At the same time, people should not be judged too harshly in this regard because after all, we are only human. When we see something that is shocking, something t
This week, Yair Cohen was interviewed on Al Jazeera TV and was asked by the host: ‘Do you think that the expectations of the egalitarian nature of the internet were too high?’ Yair: ‘I think that the internet, in the early days, was seen almost as an anarchistic place. The idea of the bureaucracy meant
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The key issue is whether it’s fair to place the entire burden of responsibility on the platform. Social media companies, while crucial in setting and enforcing community guidelines, cannot single-handedly control user behaviour.
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