Category: 230

The 1996 Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. §230 immunizes an internet service provider from tort liability stemming from its failure to honor promises to remove objectionable material posted by a

Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. v. Craigslist, Inc.

This case deals with liability as a publisher of information. The plaintiffs assert craigslist is discrimatory by allowing postings that are unfair to sex, gender, or marital status. The court denied

Regardless of an interactive service provider's specific editing or selection, 47 U.S.C. § 230(c) affords the ISP broad immunity when a third party willingly provides the essential published content.

Hilarious defamation, harassment, and intentional infliction of emotional distress suit dismissed on the basis of 47 U.S.C. § 230 and the in applicability of 47 U.S.C. § 223(a)(1)(3) to the present

Section 230 protects website that provides pre-set menu of responses to profile questions and republishes profiles as "teasers" and advertisements

Doe v. Myspace.com

Defamation, harassment, and intentional infliction of emotional distress suit dismissed on the basis of 47 U.S.C. § 230 applicability to the case at hand.

Interactive Computer Service Immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act