Automattic joined several of our peer companies today to launch Internet Works, a coalition dedicated to working with Congress to promote the benefits of Section 230, a provision of the Communications Decency Act. We look forward to sharing with elected leaders and their staff how Section 230 allows our trust and safety teams to thoughtfully […]
Read more →This week, Automattic joined Mozilla, Twitter, and Vimeo to provide recommendations for how the EU’s Digital Services Act proposals might preserve the open Internet and cultivate a healthy, competitive market for small and emerging companies. We look forward to working with EU leaders as they chart a course for the future of the web. The […]
Read more →Today, we present our update to the Automattic Transparency Report. This most recent data covers the first six months of 2020, from January 1, 2020 – June 30, 2020. Please read through the report here. In addition to our full report, we’re making a CSV file of our data available for the first time. Those […]
Read more →The European Union is considering a dangerous new amendment to its Copyright Directive that will restrict speech and expression and potentially change the way many in Europe, and worldwide, experience the internet. Article 13 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market would effectively require Internet platforms – of all sizes – to […]
Read more →On May 16, 2018, Automattic is teaming up with Global Partners Digital for a panel on content moderation and changes to legal liability for online platforms being considered by governments around the world. During our RightsCon session, Content Regulation in the Digital Age, we will explore the role of publishing platforms and social networks in […]
Read more →Today we invite you to read our bi-annual update to the Automattic transparency report, covering the period from July 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017. Read through to find details on the number of information requests and takedown demands we received from governments, as well as from intellectual property rights holders under the DMCA. Our […]
Read more →At Automattic, we build tools that make it easy for anybody to share their voice online. WordPress.com is home to tens of millions of sites, covering a huge variety of topics and issues—from news blogs, to websites for Fortune 500 companies, to thriving ecommerce stores. It also means that we inevitably host content which some […]
Read more →The time has come for the bi-annual update to our transparency report, covering January 1 to June 30, 2017. As usual, we’ve shared updated data about national security requests, government requests for user information, government demands for removal of content, as well as notices of copyright and trademark infringement. We’ve included some of the most […]
Read more →Transparency. We aim for it in most everything we do at Automattic. When it comes to legal demands from the government, being fully transparent can be hard and even impossible in cases where we are prohibited by law from revealing information about a legal request we receive. Nowhere is the lack of transparency more controversial […]
Read more →For our latest Hall of Shame entry, we turn our gaze towards the City of Abbotsford in Canada. For reference, here’s their logo. Commit it to memory, as you’ll want to remember what it looks like for later: City officials took issue with a 2013 post written by a homeless blogger that criticized them for […]
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