Section 230 Cases

The internet quickly became an easy way to commit facilitate and promote sex trafficking on a national and international scale sometimes through the use of mainstream websites such as facebook and craigslist.

Section 230 cases. A living guide to section 230 of the communications decency act what it means and all of the proposals to revoke roll back or otherwise change it. The legal interpretation of section 230 also allows social platforms to moderate their services by removing posts that for instance are obscene or violate the services own standards so long as. Citations omitted even though it s a pro se case this is a pretty significant section 230 ruling and it deserved its own blog post. Section 230 immunity is particularly controversial with regard to sex trafficking cases and other online sexual victimization cases.

The following is a partial list of legal cases that have been established as case law that have influenced the interpretation of section 230 in subsequent cases or have led to new legislation around section 230. Justice clarence thomas released a statement agreeing with the court s decision to not hear the section 230 case known as malwarebytes inc. Magedson 2014 wl 3778261 d. Numerous cases involving section 230 have been heard in the judiciary system since its introduction many which are rote applications of section 230.

Section 230 as it s commonly known provides interactive computer services that is anything from web hosts to websites to social media companies with broad immunity from civil cases. The supreme court declined yesterday to review the scope of section 230 of the communications decency act cda which gives online platforms immunity from civil liability for third party content on their services. 4 cases that show the scope of services speech and conduct protected by section 230 gun buyers gay lovers cannabis customers and yelp users are just a few of the groups that. 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.