Texas's SCOPE Act child safety content filter has been struck down by a federal appeals court ruling that Section 230 bars ...

An excerpt from the long opinion in Computer & Comm. Industry Ass'n v. Paxton, decided Friday by Fifth Circuit ...

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 ...

Section 230 is a part of federal legislation passed more than 20 years ago. It runs only 26-words long—short and to the point. But it has had an outsize affect on life as we know it. They are the “26 ...

This performance was met with widespread derision; on Twitter, Trump’s own recently fired election security czar, Christopher Krebs, called it “the most dangerous 1hr 45 minutes of television in ...

In the immediate aftermath of the Christchurch attack, as Facebook and YouTube struggled to cope with the horrific footage flooding their platforms, it appeared that the internet was fundamentally ...

US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on Friday said that he was moving to file a bipartisan bill to repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230, passed in 1996 as part of the ...

There is growing interest in reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. This statute protects internet companies that host content from being legally liable for what their users and ...

A 25-year-old law that shields social media companies from lawsuits over content their users post is once again under attack. This time it’s because a Facebook whistleblower, who leaked thousands of ...

Section 230 grants broad legal protections to websites that host user-generated content. It is widely recognized as the reason that platforms like Facebook and Google exist in their current form. The ...