Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
Jonathan Frieden (who runs the e-commerce law blog) has a nice, pithy summary of Section 230: If the “essential published content” is willingly provided by a third-party, the interactive computer service provider publishing that content enjoys the full immunity afforded by Section 230. Amen, brother! I noted Eric Goldman’s excellent outline about Section 230 back [...]
Eric Goldman offers a terrific—and concise—summary of Section 230 and how courts have recently interpreted its grant of broad immunity to online intermediaries, most notably: 47 USC 230 tries to divide online content into first party content and third party content. In its simplest form, 230 says that online actors can’t be liable for third [...]
February 14, 2012
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