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The 1996 Law That Ruined the Internet Steve Randy Waldman © Shutterstock / The Atlantic In the United States, you are free to speak, but you are not free of responsibility for what you say. If your speech is defamatory, you can be sued. If you are a publisher, you can be sued for the speech you pass along. But online services such as Facebook and Twitter can pass along almost anything, with almost no legal accountability, thanks to a law known as Section 230. President Donald ...

As we get ready to say goodbye to 2020 and jump head-first into 2021, let's go back in time to the 1980s.

Updated Dec 21, 2020 at 3:49 p.m. UTC Public Blockchains Are Set to Reshape Global Commerce (2020 Was the Start) Ronald Coase, an economist, came up with the idea that the cost and complexity of doing business in enterprises is the key factor in driving up (or down) the size of an efficient enterprise. Companies can keep getting bigger and more profitable so long as the cost and complexity of managing a process internally is lower than the cost of assembling the same pieces on the open market f...

Pixel Scroll 12/17/20 For He To-Day That Scrolls His Pixel With Me, Shall Be My Sibling; Be He Ne’er So File Posted on (1) INSIDE STORY. In “Why I Write”: Samuel R. Delany scrolls through the reasons. This conversation appears in the Winter 2020 print issue of   . … I remember sitting on the steps of the embalming room at the back of the chapel in my father’s Harlem funeral parlor, watching Freddy, my father’s embalmer, working on the corpse of a tan woman with reddish hair st...

(1) INSIDE STORY. In “Why I Write”: Samuel R. Delany scrolls through the reasons. This conversation appears in the Winter 2020 print issue of   . … I remember sitting on the steps of the embalming room at the back of the chapel in my father’s Harlem funeral parlor, watching Freddy, my father’s embalmer, working on the corpse of a tan woman with reddish hair stretched on her back on the white enamel surgical table with its drain and clamps… “How old is she?” I asked. “Twenty-...

Wed, Dec 16th 2020 10:51am — Mike Masnick I still am perplexed at why so many politicians hate Section 230. Theyve yet to provide any compelling reason at all. But, hate it, they do. Lindsey Graham, who has been at the forefront of senators wrongly attacking Section 230, has now decided to introduce yet another bill to attack Section 230. This comes just days after Graham tried to move forward on one of his many anti-230 bills, the Frankensteins monster bill called the Online Content Policy ...

This article is part of the Free Speech Project, a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways technology is influencing how we think about speech. In 2020, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act took a hell of a beating from all sides of the political spectrum. Section 230 grants broad legal immunity to interactive computer services for user-generated content and for the moderati...

Being at the office, doing office things IS WORK. Where does the idea come that youre only "working" when youre coding? If youre filling out a TPS report, youre WORKING. If youre sitting in mind-numbing status update meeting with a 1000 yard stare on your face, youre WORKING. If youre researching something on the internet to solve a problem for you or someone else, youre WORKING. If youre watching an HR-mandated online learning presentation about IT security consisting of Kevin Mitnick clips dr...

Per se. you use your phone line and your computer, and you get online. >> and compuserve was for the tech savvy people. prodigy was for shopping and aol was the first one that had a vision to get everyone connected. >> when i heard that sound, i cried a little bit because i knew there was a big adventure waiting for me. >> welcome. youve got mail. >> compuserve charged by the minute. it was like a taxicab. aols invention was to forget that and charge $19.95 a month, all you can eat. and that cha...

Vision to get everyone connected. [ computer handshake ] >> when i heard that sound, i cried a little bit because i knew there was a big adventure waiting for me. >> welcome. youve got mail. >> compuserve charged by the minute. it was like a taxicab. aols invention was to forget that and charge $19.95 a month, all you can eat. and that changed everything because now you could afford to be on the internet all you wanted. >> you didnt have to be a researcher. you could dial on to aol. aol was spec...