Congress passed Section 230 thirty years ago to protect startups, but now it shields Big Tech monopolies from accountability ...

Miers spoke during a Thursday symposium on Section 230 hosted by the Cato Institute in Washington D.C. The event included a virtual appearance by Senator Ron Wyden who, along with former Congressman ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., are vocal critics of Section 230. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Section 230 ...

Thirty years ago, I co-wrote Section 230. Without it, goodbye retweets, Reddit mods, Wikipedia editors and curated feeds on Bluesky.

In recent years, there's been a steady stream of terrible proposals to amend Section 230, the part of federal communications law that's made the internet as we know it possible. Without Section 230, ...

In December, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., introduced the Sunset Section 230 Act, which would remove the legal protection from federal law within two years. A bipartisan group ...

Sometimes when my teenage son attempts to educate me about the internet, I find myself tempted to quote Aslan from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, “Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was ...

Twenty-five years ago, Congress passed a little-noticed law that shielded online platforms from liability for the content posted by users. In the decades since, Section 230 of the Communications ...

Shortly after the CDA was enacted, it faced First Amendment challenges to its provisions that prohibited the transmission of “obscene or indecent” content to minors. The U.S. Supreme Court held the ...

In 1996 Congress passed the Communications Decency Act, which includes Section 230. The law provides interactive computer services with immunity from liability for almost all harms created by ...

Section 230, which says that websites aren’t liable for third-party content, has developed an increasingly bad reputation. In December, President Trump vetoed a critical $740 billion military funding ...