The internet is filled with sites and services we loathe yet it seems, to paraphrase Brokeback Mountain, we just don’t know how to quit them. This points to an environment where big platforms can act ...

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's internet platforms are quietly reviving consumer lending, taking Beijing's push to make household borrowing cheaper as a signal that regulators may be easing a ...

Activist-journalist Cory Doctorow argues that e-commerce and social media platforms evolve and implode in three stages. He’d like to see “more emphasis on making them less destructive when they give ...

Since the earliest days of online networks such as AOL and Prodigy, there has been a tension between the media (print and electronic press) and online platforms. That’s because they compete for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images/Creative (Getty Images/iStockphoto) This week the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear two major cases involving big ...

This Fall has been the most important for internet content regulation since 1996, when the Congress approved Section 230 of the Telecom Act establishing an internet ground rule that internet platforms ...

A decision on Friday by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit puts in jeopardy one of the few tools that exist to deal with false speech on the internet. The court ruled ...

The Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday that it will launch a public inquiry into “censorship by tech platforms,” soliciting comments from people who feel they have been demonetized, banned ...

Q. Traditional media (newspapers, radio, TV) have long been held accountable for what they publish and post. In 1996 when the internet was just getting started, Congress enacted Section 230 of the ...

Online Age Verification: Internet platforms are introducing systems like age verification to keep children out, but children are already prepared with workarounds to bypass them. Online Age ...