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Section 230 (47 U.S.C. § 230) was Congress' response to two court cases decided in New York in the early 1990's that had conflicting results.Cubby and Stratton Oakmont. The first case involved CompuServe, which in the early days of the Internet hosted "an on-line general information service" through which subscribers could access thousands of outside sites and around 150 special-interest forums.
Feb 21, 2023 · Gonzalez’s family argues that Google aided ISIS when it recommended the terrorist group’s videos on YouTube, a violation of federal anti-terrorism law. Google, meanwhile, claims Section 230 ...
FOSTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act) and SESTA (Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act) are U.S. Senate and House bills which became law on April 11, 2018. They clarify the country's sex trafficking law to make it illegal to knowingly assist, facilitate, or support sex trafficking, and amend the Section 230 safe ...
Moody v. NetChoice, LLC and NetChoice, LLC v.Paxton are pending United States Supreme Court cases related to protected speech under the First Amendment, content moderation by interactive service providers on the Internet under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and two state statutes passed in Florida and Texas that sought to limit this moderation.
May 22, 2023 · By declining to rule on the Section 230 question, the Court preserved decades of legal precedent and the ability of volunteer-run projects like Wikipedia to allow users to contribute to, edit, and ...
Stuart L. Ain. Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co., 23 Media L. Rep. 1794 ( N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1995), [1] is a 1995 decision of the New York Supreme Court [nb 1] holding that online service providers can be liable for the speech of their users. The ruling caused controversy among early supporters of the Internet, including some lawmakers ...
Section 230: Key Legal Cases. In the decade and a half since Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) was signed into law, it has been challenged and upheld on numerous occasions. This is a small sample of the key cases that have litigated Section 230 over the years. For a more complete discussion of Section 230 and the cases ...
