Solicitor Yair Cohen speaks to BBC Radio Kent about The rate of homophobic hate crimes in the UK, including stalking and online harassment, has more than doubled over the past five years, with Kent police reporting a staggering 400% increase in reported cases.
Introducing the Solicitor of the Year – Private Practice Shortlist: Q&A with Yair Cohen, Partner at Cohen Davis Solicitors
Yair Cohen talked on Al Jazeera earlier this month about the online gaming message board 8chan, which became a haven for extremist content. Social media platforms to be accountable for amplifying hate speech from Yair Cohen Solicitor on Vimeo. 8chan is where the suspect of the El Paso Shooting is believed to have posted a […]
Yair Cohen , Social Media Lawyer, discusses Twitter’s recent decision of hiding harmful tweets by politicians
The annual gathering of the most prominent internet law lawyers and attorneys from across the world
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The annual ICO conference with Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham CBE
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Is it harassment to troll a celebrity or an influencer?
https://www.harassmentlawyer.co.uk/tag/influencer-and-celebrity-harassment
Facebook has made a ton of rules against content that incites violence, spreads dangerous rumors or denigrates the victims of tragedies. A Wall Street Journal test found that it generally fails to enforce them in response to user reports. https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-has-made-lots-of-new-rules-this-year-it-doesnt-always-enforce-them-11602775676
In many cases is impossible to give valid consent due to controlling and coercive behavior by the video producer. Coercive behaviour is a criminal offence in the UK, which cerries a prison sentence.
Women are being waterboarded, strangled, suffocated, electrocuted, and worse in homemade “amateur” torture videos. There is no consent verified. These are crime scenes. Pornhub clearly doesn’t care as long as it brings them traffic/money. Shut it down
#Traffickinghub #Torturehub
Check out my latest article: http://yelp.com is Definitely Not Racist https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/yelpcom-definitely-racist-yair-cohen via @LinkedIn
Interesting case about whether Facebook owes duty of care to prevent murder of a user.
Blog Post: Facebook Doesn’t Have a Duty to Prevent a Murder–Godwin v Facebook https://j.mp/3dhmUOI
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