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from the retrospective-omnibus dept This past weekend Section 230 turned 30 years old. In those 30 years it has proven…

Playing defense. The Seattle Seahawks triumphed over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX in a mostly snoozy defensive…

In brief OpenAI kicked off a limited U.S. ad test for free and Go tier users. The company says ads…

For thirty years, internet users have benefited from a key federal law that allows everyone to express themselves, find community,…

from the they’re-both-wrong dept Here’s what’s strange about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law that made the…

The NYU Law Democracy Project is promoting dialogue across ideological and political lines, their goal being to help break through…

In brief Bitcoin funds saw weekly outflows slow from $1.7 billion to $264.4 million last week, while altcoin fund flows…

A giant new study of social media use by fourth through twelfth graders found that moderate use of online platforms…

Australia has been described as having some of the “democratic world’s most draconian anti-protest laws” after a state government invoked…

In brief BitMine Immersion Technologies added around $83 million worth of ETH last week. The firm now holds 4.325 million…

(This appeared as an op-ed published Friday, Feb. 6 in the Daily Journal, a California legal newspaper.) Section 230, “the…

from the 230-is-30 dept The Telecommunications Act of 1996 became law thirty years ago today, on February 8, 1996. Buried in a…