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Twitter moves on, but Trump's not far away...

It looks like the controversial social media giant is doing just fine for itself. Twitter was often in the news in the fourth quarter of 2020, especially in relation to the presidential election. The social network began placing warnings on false tweets about the election, including from the account of then-President Donald Trump, and even temporality changed how the retweet button works. The quarter was a strong one for Twitter financially. The company posted revenue of $1.29 billion, a 28 percent jump from the same time the year before, as the company posted GAAP operating income of $252 mi...

Mon, Feb 8th 2021 12:07pm — Mike Masnick I know that Section 230 is very much under attack these days, and I've seen so many people cheer when we point out that dumping 230 could take away (or at least, drastically alter) the sites we love and appreciate every day. I think this is because of a natural tendency of many people to focus on the negative side of things in existence, and to ignore all of the good that has resulted from them. In some ways, I think it's a variation on the famous Douglas Adams quote: “I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

Mon, Feb 8th 2021 3:36pm — Mike Masnick As we've been noting in posts throughout the day, today is the day that, 25 years ago, then President Bill Clinton signed into law the Telecommunications Act of 1996. That large telco bill included, among many other things, the Communications Decency Act, a dangerous censorial bill written by Senator James Exon. However, buried in the CDA was a separate bill, written by now Senator Ron Wyden and then Representative Chris Cox, the Internet Freedom and Family Empowerment Act, which today is generally known as Section 230 of the CDA. A legal challenge la...

Conservative Americans who identify as such or who supported former President Donald Trump are in for a rough two-to-four years depending on whether the Republican Party a) can collectively grow [...]