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  • Let public opinion, not the Supreme Court, curb social media

    Gene Policinski|Dec 19, 2024

    The U.S. Supreme Court will now step into the national debate about regulating social media, a move that might be popular but is the wrong one at the wrong time – and maybe for all time. The court has agreed to hear a challenge to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, seeking to limit – or even remove – a federal law that gives tech companies sweeping immunity from lawsuits over user-generated content and how social media company algorithms surface that posted content. The justices will consider a lawsuit against Google brought by th...

  • Guest Opinion

    Gene Policinski|Mar 9, 2023

    Artificial intelligence – a major force in media and technology – is at the center of hot new discussion these days about its potential impact on the arts, and literature and whether AI expression is protected by the First Amendment. “AI” can range from another name for the algorithms that make a zillion decisions a day on social media sites to apocalyptic creations that someday soon will reach self-awareness and surpass their human creators. Advocates would say AI can boost human creativ...