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The Internet makes it easier than ever to connect with people around the world, share ideas and information, and have their voices heard regardless of whether they are a single...

Platforms like Grindr and Tinder have broad legal immunity when they hook users up with con artists, rapists, and murderers—for now.

Senator Josh Hawley’s (R–MO) Ending Support for Internet Censorship Act (S. 1914) is intended to address claims of anti-conservative biasREF by Facebook, Google, and other Internet platforms. If enacted, however, the bill’s prescription for regulating online content would risk eroding free speech rather than protecting it.

Members of Congress don’t agree on much these days, but there’s one idea both the right and the left support: Something needs to be done to rein in social media companies. Democrats’ concerns revolve around harassment and misinformation, while Republicans’ focus is on political speech. Both sides have set their sights on a small but critical piece of federal law known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. But such discussions have been clouded by fundamental misunderstanding...

CompuServe Inc extended distributor liability to digital intermediaries that exercised little or no editorial control over third‐​party content, offering them the protections traditionally granted to newsstands and booksellers. This protected CompuServe from Cubby’s defamation claim, though it left open the possibility that CompuServe might have been liable for Rumorville’s defamation had it failed to act after being made aware of the defamatory content. In 1995, Stratton Oakmont Inc.,...