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California Can Now Enforce Its Net Neutrality Law

California can start enforcing the net neutrality law it enacted over two years ago, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a loss for...

Lawmakers Take Aim at Insidious Digital ‘Dark Patterns’

In 2010, British designer Harry Brignull coined a handy new term for an everyday annoyance: dark patterns, meaning digital interfaces that subtly manipulate...

Apple Will Take a Smaller Cut of Some App Store Revenues

In one of the biggest changes to the App Store model ever, Apple announced Wednesday that the majority of third-party developers releasing apps...

The Tech Antitrust Problem No One Is Talking About

The US has suffered, and broken up, telecom monopolies in the past. AT&T had a government-sanctioned monopoly for much of the 20th century, until...

Republicans Make an Unlikely Closing Pitch: Amend Section 230

Because Section 230 is the only federal statute that specifically applies to interactive websites, it’s one of the only points of leverage Congress has...

‘Do Not Track’ Is Back, and This Time It Might Work

What do you call a privacy law that only works if users individually opt out of every site or app they want to stop...

Should Google’s Ad Market Be Regulated Like the Stock Market?

The days of suit-clad men shouting out orders on the bustling floors of stock exchanges are mostly gone, replaced by windowless rooms full of...

Can Australia Force Google and Facebook to Pay for News?

That just price is intended to result from negotiations between the online platforms and media companies. Should they fail to agree, the parties will...

The Pandemic Is Forcing Everyone to Face the Digital Divide

As the number of Covid-19 cases in the US continues to rise, many parents in the country are getting ready for a fall semester...

Epic Games’ Lawsuit Fires a Shot at Apple’s App Store ‘Monopoly’

Fortnite creator Epic Games launched a spear at Apple’s gatekept iOS App Store market today with a lawsuit filed in the US District Court...

The Covid-19 Pandemic Shows the Virtues of Net Neutrality

Net neutrality—the idea that internet service providers should treat all traffic equally—might seem quaint during the Covid-19 pandemic. Internet traffic is surging, so...

The Web’s .Org Domain Is Still Run by a Nonprofit—for Now

The battle over the future of .org domain names is over. For now. An organization called Icann, short for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names...

The US Supreme Court Rules That Laws Can’t Be Paywalled

A narrowly divided US Supreme Court on Monday upheld the right to freely share the official law code of Georgia. The state claimed...

One Man’s Radical Plan to Solve Wealth Inequality

By the time he began working on Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he had an advantage over previous writers on inequality: an unprecedented historical...

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