A new briefing paper produced by the London Social Media Observatory (LSMO) at Royal Holloway and Westminster Foundation for ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has become a political lightning rod in recent years. The law, part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 signed into law on Feb. 8, ...

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The article is here; the Introduction: Over the past several decades, a combination of a laissez-faire regulatory environment and Section 230's statutory protections for platform content-moderation ...