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Section 230 Was Created to Protect Innovators From Self-Proclaimed Victims

A new article by Market Institute Senior Fellow Norm Singleton in RealClearMarkets examines a troubling California jury verdict holding Meta and Alphabet liable for alleged harms tied to social media “addiction”—and warns of the broader consequences for innovation, free expression, and the future of the internet. A California jury recently Read more…

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Tragic Cases Are Gut Wrenching, While Frequently Perverting the Law

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. famously said: “hard cases make bad law.” As Market Institute President Charles Sauer writes in a recent article at RealClear Markets, few cases are harder than one where a grieving parent seeks to hold someone accountable for the death of their child. Sauer highlights the Read more…

By admin, 1 year1 year ago
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Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Section 230, Expand It Instead

In the vast landscape of internet regulation, few laws have been as influential—or as controversial—as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. At the heart of this debate are 26 words that have shaped the digital age: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be Read more…

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Businesses should be able to succeed or fail based on how they perform, not how much the government has invested in them. A free market means letting businesses compete on their own, not having the government take a bigger seat at the table.

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Memo to the Trump administration: Stop buying companies.

A government $40 trillion in debt should be SELLING assets, not buying ownership stakes in 36 companies.

We thought government control of the means of production was what we were fighting against.

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The goal should be simple: protect national security without blocking promising medicines from reaching American patients.

Broad biotech restrictions risk doing exactly that.

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