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again dept Mon, Jan 10th 2011 10:07pm — Mike Masnick This is a few weeks old, but Michael Scott points us to the story of how Backpages is asking a court to dismiss the lawsuit filed against it by a teen who was sold as a prostitute on the site. We covered the lawsuit when it was first filed, and had a rather frustrating discussion in the comments with people who simply couldn't understand the difference between blaming those actually responsible and blaming the tools those people used. We've discussed how the attempts to blame tool providers often helps those who are involved in child tr...

Editorial: Purge of Trump, Parler show Big Tech firms have too much power FacebookTwitterEmail FILE -- Supporters of President Donald Trump attend a rally near the White House in Washington, Nov. 14, 2020. Amazon, Apple and Google have cut off Parler, a social network that pitches itself as a “free speech” alternative to Twitter and Facebook. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)KENNY HOLSTON, STR / NYT There’s no question that disinformation — outright lies or the misrepresentation of facts — is a worsening plague on our democracy. It is not limited to any party, ideology or sector �...

Have we moved beyond the ability of Section 230 reforms to rein in Big Tech's rising power?

Fri, Jan 15th 2021 12:11pm — Mike Masnick It's not just Ajit Pai who is an FCC chair who misunderstands Section 230. His predecessor, Tom Wheeler continues to get it totally wrong as well. A year ago, we highlighted Wheeler's complete confusion over Section 230, that blamed Section 230 for all sorts of things... that had nothing at all to do with Section 230. I was told by some people that they had talked to Wheeler and explained to him some of the mistakes in his original piece, but it appears that they did not stick. This week he published another bizarre and misguided attack on Section 2...

Why was the law passed? How has the industry reacted to the opposition?