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Dec 7, 2005 · For its part, Wikipedia is attempting to address some of the problem with its new rule prohibiting unregistered users from creating new articles, though anonymous users will still be able to edit ...
Dec 7, 2005 · For its part, Wikipedia is attempting to address some of the problem with its new rule prohibiting unregistered users from creating new articles, though anonymous users will still be able to edit ...
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- Introduction
- What Is Section 230?
- Why Was Section 230 created?
- What Has Section 230 Achieved?
Who is responsible for illegal speech? Historically, the laws on intermediary liability—the extent to which a third party is legally responsible for the speech of others—have treated those who publish content differently from those who distribute it. Booksellers and newsstands, for example, are not legally responsible when a book or newspaper they ...
The oft-cited Section 230(c)(1) states, “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” In practice, this means online services are not liable for defamatory or otherwise unlawful content their users post. Section 230(c)(2) ela...
The rationale for Section 230 arose from a pair of court cases in the 1990s that illustrated how existing U.S. law was ill-equipped to handle intermediary liability issues that arose with the rise of the Internet. The first of these cases was Cubby v. CompuServe (1991). The defendant, CompuServe, was an online service that hosted forums dedicated t...
Proponents refer to Section 230 as “a core pillar of [I]nternet freedom” and “the most important law protecting Internet speech,” responsible for creating “the Internet as we know it.”By protecting online services from facing liability for third-party content, it has paved the way for a variety of business models that rely on a wide variety of user...
- Ashley Johnson, Daniel Castro
- 2021
Feb 12, 2017 · Like other web platforms, Wikipedia has some protection in law, which effectively treat it as a carrier of information rather than publisher, meaning its liability for what users post is not as ...
- Jasper Jackson
Wikipedia:Non-free content is an evolving page offering more specific guidance about what is likely to be fair use in the Wikipedia articles and what Wikipedia policy will accept, with examples. In general, the educational and transformative nature of Wikipedia articles provides an excellent fair use case for anyone reproducing an article.
May 28, 2020 · Section 230: The little law that defined how the Internet works. Often called the law that ‘created the Internet,’ the legal section is under fire again. So what is it? The last surviving part ...
Feb 8, 2023 · Rogers said most lawsuits against Wikipedia get squashed soon after they’re filed, thanks to 230. Without that protection, costly lawsuits could drag on much longer, which opens up the ...
