The internet is filled with sites and services we loathe yet it seems, to paraphrase Brokeback Mountain, we just don’t know how to quit them. This points to an environment where big platforms can act ...

In my latest blog post, I illustrated that the increased privacy rationale used by the majority of the commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission to support the reclassification of ...

This week the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear two major cases involving big technology companies, with key aspects of the internet on the line with its rulings later this year. First up, on Feb. 21, ...

Activist-journalist Cory Doctorow argues that e-commerce and social media platforms evolve and implode in three stages. He’d like to see “more emphasis on making them less destructive when they give ...

A trade group of Internet platforms won summary judgment against Louisiana and a permanent injunction in Arkansas challenging state laws governing social media platforms and imposing liability over ...

Since the earliest days of online networks such as AOL and Prodigy, there has been a tension between the media (print and electronic press) and online platforms. That’s because they compete for ...

This Fall has been the most important for internet content regulation since 1996, when the Congress approved Section 230 of the Telecom Act establishing an internet ground rule that internet platforms ...

Q. Traditional media (newspapers, radio, TV) have long been held accountable for what they publish and post. In 1996 when the internet was just getting started, Congress enacted Section 230 of the ...

[Jack Goldsmith and I will have an article out about the Dormant Commerce Clause, geolocation, and state regulations of Internet transactions in the Texas Law Review early next year, and I'm ...

A California bill that aims to ease newspapers’ internet-age woes by making Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook pay for the online articles their users access through their platforms advanced ...

The Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday that it will launch a public inquiry into “censorship by tech platforms,” soliciting comments from people who feel they have been demonetized, banned ...

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's internet platforms are quietly reviving consumer lending, taking Beijing's push to make household borrowing cheaper as a signal that regulators may be easing a ...