"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 t...
The Supreme Court building is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 10, 2023. The Supreme Court is taking up its first case about a federal law that is credited with helping create the modern internet by shielding Google, Twitter, Facebook and other companies from lawsuits over content po...
President Donald Trump is the latest politician to go after a law that has long protected the tech industry. The White House is expected to unveil a new executive order Thursday that would direct federal agencies to exercise greater oversight and regulations related toSection 230 of the Communicati...
Part of a 1996 Internet law is now at the center of a debate over social media companies' power after President Trump signed an executive order in May that could remove some of their liability protections if they engage in "selective censorship" harmful to national discourse. Section 230 of ...
What is Section 230? Basically, it protects tech companies from legal liability for what their users post on their platforms, with exceptions when it comes to illegal activity such as copyright infringement, sex trafficking, and other federal crimes. It puts the legal liability on the user who...
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act: Why California Courts Interpreted It Correctly and What That Says About How We Should Change ItE. Alex Murcia
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Originally, the bill required internet companies to follow the commission’s best practices in order to “earn” the protections granted by Section 230 of the Federal Communications Act.Section 230is a crucial law in the development of the internet as we know it, shielding internet companies from...
Her suit claimed that TikTok is "programming children for the sake of corporate profits and promoting addiction,” while being “a predatory and manipulative app” that pushes "exceedingly and unacceptably dangerous challenges." However, in October of that same year, a federal judge dismissed the ...
The new prospective vice presidential nominee is also very much in line with the conservative crusade against affirmative action, protester encampments on campus and alleged elitism in education. These are among the most noteworthy policy stances for Vance, a Yale Law School graduate and Marine Corps...