Filed Under: “Electronic Frontier Foundation”
As bad as fake news and hate are on the internet, they would be much worse without Section 230
15 universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a typical patent troll operation
Trump planned to leverage more than $117 million worth of government online advertising to stop platforms from fact-checking or otherwise moderating his speech
Apple’s new privacy controls are great for its customers, but protecting privacy still isn’t the norm for big tech
When the US Department of Justice broke up AT&T, it traded one national monopoly for a set of regional monopolies. Over time, Congress learned that it wasn’t enough. Today, we are facing a similar challenge. Potential breakups of Google and Facebook will only be step one.
Contrary to obfuscating politicians, the much-discussed but little-understood Section 230 makes no distinction between publishers and and platforms.