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Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases that could drastically alter Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, a decades-old law that has until now protected technology ...

Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today. A case coming before the U.S.

The Supreme Court's Section 230 hearings could have wide-reaching consequences for free speech. Credit: Robert Alexander/Getty Images and Franz-Peter Tschauner/picture alliance via Getty Images The ...

There's an old saying that goes, "How do you know when a politician is lying? His lips are moving." These days, one can ask, "How do you know when Section 230 is being misunderstood?" and answer, "A ...

Section 230 then comes along and overturns that very fundamental doctrine, on the basis of the pragmatic fallacy. Essentially they were saying "I don't like the fact that current laws make it ...