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Dec 7, 2005 · Thanks to section 230 of the Federal Communications Decency Act (CDA), which became law in 1996, Wikipedia is most likely safe from legal liability for libel, regardless of how long an...
Nov 1, 2023 · Section 230 protects the Wikimedia Foundation from legal liability for content posted by users, and protects volunteer editors from liability when they edit or remove content posted by other...
Dec 7, 2005 · Thanks to section 230 of the Federal Communications Decency Act (CDA), which became law in 1996, Wikipedia is most likely safe from legal liability for libel, regardless of how long an inaccurate...
- What Is Section 230?
- Where Did Section 230 Come from?
- What Happens If Section 230 Goes away?
If a news site falsely calls you a swindler, you can sue the publisher for libel. But if someone posts that on Facebook, you can’t sue the company — just the person who posted it. That’s thanks to Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which states that “no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the pub...
The measure’s history dates back to the 1950s, when bookstore owners were being held liable for selling books containing “obscenity,” which is not protected by the First Amendment. One case eventually made it to the Supreme Court, which held that it created a “chilling effect” to hold someone liable for someone else’s content. That meant plaintiffs...
“The primary thing we do on the internet is we talk to each other. It might be email, it might be social media, might be message boards, but we talk to each other. And a lot of those conversations are enabled by Section 230, which says that whoever’s allowing us to talk to each other isn’t liable for our conversations,” said Eric Goldman, a profess...
Feb 22, 2021 · KEY TAKEAWAYS. A U.S. appellate court set the precedent for how Section 230 is interpreted, ruling in Zeran v. America Online (1997) that the law protects online services from liability even if they knowingly distribute illegal third-party content.
- Ashley Johnson, Daniel Castro
- 2021
May 28, 2020 · The First Amendment protects free speech, including hate speech, but Section 230 shields websites from liability for content created by their users. It permits internet companies to moderate...
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Sep 25, 2023 · Section 230 (c) (1) of the Communications Decency Act protects social media platforms from liability for harmful content posted on their sites by third parties. This is because social...
