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Bookmark or Share- 47 U.S. Code § 230 - LII / Legal Information Institutesection 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 230; commonly known as the ‘Communications Decency Act of 1996’) was never intended to provide legal protection to websites that unlawfully promote and facilitate prostitution and websites that facilitate traffickers in advertising the sale of unlawful sex acts with sex trafficking ...
- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE’S REVIEW OF SECTION 230 OF THE COMMUNICATIONS ...As part of its broader review of market-leading online platforms, the U.S. Department of Justice analyzed Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which provides immunity to online platforms from civil liability based on third-party content and for the removal of content in certain circumstances. Congress originally enacted the ...
- What you should know about Section 230, the rule that shaped ... - PBSThat’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 publisher or speaker of...
- Communications Decency Act and Section 230 (1996)In 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the portions of the Communications Decency Act that criminalized the transmission of obscene, indecent and patently offensive material, finding that the law was overbroad and criminalized speech protected by the First Amendment.
- COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT, 47 U.S.C. §230 - Columbia University(a) Findings The Congress finds the following: (1) The rapidly developing array of Internet and other interactive computer services available to individual Americans represent an extraordinary advance in the availability of educational and informational resources to our citizens.
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