On Jan. 31, during a pivotal Senate hearing in Washington, Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham made a surprising joint declaration. Despite being opponents on nearly every political issue, they ...

Section 230 of the Telecommunications Decency Act is a very important law that allows the Internet to function as it does today. Without it, your favorite website would either cease to exist or change ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ryan James Girdusky Image by Ryan James GirduskyX Political consultant Ryan James Girdusky is urging Congress to reform Section ...

Santa Clara University School of Law's Eric Goldman joins Yahoo Finance Live to break down the internet’s most important and misunderstood law, Section 230. -Big tech will be in focus yet again on the ...

Dozens of activists who helped organize protests this year against Elon Musk’s company Tesla are calling on Democratic leaders in Congress to drop efforts to repeal Section 230, arguing the statute ...

Congress originally passed Section 230 in 1996 to incentivize the expansion of the internet, a then relatively new technological frontier. At that time, Congress enacted CDA Section 230 in response to ...

The scene was familiar: angry senators haranguing tech CEOs about the latest horrors social media had wrought. On this occasion, the focus was on the vast and growing problem of child sexual ...

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is probably anything but decent. The clause insulates social media (SM) from liability when hosting third-party content – even if dangerous or offensive - ...

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