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Court Tosses Antitrust Claims That Internet Giants Are Biased Against Conservatives–Freedom Watch v. Google

March 15, 2019

Apologies if I’m not being appropriately empathetic, but I think lawsuits alleging that Internet giants are biased against conservatives are stupid and counterproductive. They are premised on factually unsupportable assertions of bias, and most of these plaintiffs would enthusiastically cheer such...

What happens if the law starts treating Facebook and Twitter like traditional publishers?

March 6, 2019

"No other sentence in the U.S. Code," technology scholar David Post has written, "has been responsible for the creation of more value than" a little-known provision of the Communications Decency Act called Section 230. But in January, President Donald Trump's technology adviser Abigail Slater sugges...

The President and Congress Are Thinking of Changing This Important Internet Law

February 25, 2019

“No other sentence in the U.S. Code,” technology scholar David Post has written, “has been responsible for the creation of more value than” a little-known provision of the Communications Decency Act called Section 230. But in January, President Donald Trump’s technology adviser Abigail Slater sugges...

Supreme Court justices seem unlikely to extend First Amendment protections to users of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter

February 25, 2019

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a First Amendment case that experts have said could have ramifications for how the nation’s largest social media companies are permitted to moderate the content on their platforms. From CNBC

U.S. regulators have met to discuss imposing a record-setting fine against Facebook for privacy violations

January 18, 2019

U.S. regulators have met to discuss imposing a record-setting fine against Facebook for violating a legally binding agreement with the government to protect the privacy of its users' personal data, according to three people familiar with the deliberations but not authorized to speak on the record...

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