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 ...

Internet platforms generate massive traffic but fail to share the costs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 U.S. justice system, including the Supreme Court, will consider cases that will help determine the bounds of free expression on the internet. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has been ...