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Northern District Applies Section 230 to AI-Assisted Content Moderation

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In Ryan v. X Corp., a Northern District of California court held that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunized X (formerly Twitter) against claims arising from suspension of a user’s account, notwithstanding...more

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Part 2(B) – Section 230: 27 Years Old And Still In The Spotlight

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In this second installment of our six-part series examining Section 230, the section of the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA) that immunizes online service providers from liability stemming from the publication and...more

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Part 2(A) – Section 230: 27 Years Old And Still In The Spotlight

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In this second installment of our six-part series examining Section 230, the section of the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA) that immunizes online service providers from liability stemming from the publication and...more

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Supreme Court Maintains Internet Safe Harbor Provisions … for Now

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With little comment and reportage, the U. S. Supreme Court decided on May 18 that the “safe harbor” granted to the operators of online platforms precluded claims that an algorithmic process that allowed terrorist recruiting...more

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CDA Section 230 Immunizes Platform From Liability for Friend and Content Suggestion Algorithms

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A recent Second Circuit decision makes clear that the safe harbor that social media and other Internet companies enjoy under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act broadly applies to a wide variety of claims. ...more

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California Court Finds Section 230 Protects Decision to Suspend and Ban Twitter Account

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A California Superior Court’s recent ruling in Murphy v. Twitter held that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shielded Twitter from liability for suspending and banning a user’s account for violating the platform’s...more

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Legislators Propose Narrowing § 230’s Protections

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As we have frequently noted on Socially Aware, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects social media sites and other online platforms from liability for user-generated content. Sometimes referred to as “the law...more

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Appeals Court Again Upholds Section 230 Protections in Case Against Grindr

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Often hailed as the law that gave us the modern Internet, Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act generally protects online platforms from liability for content posted by third parties. Many commentators, including us...more

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For the Time Being, Tech Companies Remain Shielded from Liability for Users’ Uploaded Content

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Thanks to recent decisions by the First and Second Circuit Courts of Appeals, tech companies will remain protected from liability for some of their users’ uploaded content under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and...more

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The Decline and Fall of Section 230?

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2016 has been a tough year for a lot of reasons, most of which are outside the scope of this blog (though if you’d like to hear our thoughts about Bowie, Prince or Leonard Cohen, feel free to drop us a line). But one possible...more

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Yelp Case Shows CDA §230 Still Has Teeth

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2016 has been a challenging year for Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) and the website operators who depend on it for protection against liability stemming from user-generated content. An unusually large...more

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When It Comes to Liability, Whose User Generated Content Is It Anyway?

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Hospitality industry stakeholders who host sites for online reviews or rely on review sites such as Yelp, Trip Advisor, Urban Spoon, or Oyster, may take comfort in the recent Ninth Circuit decision regarding the liability of...more

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Controversial California Court Decision Significantly Narrows a Crucial Liability Safe Harbor for Website Operators

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A recent California court decision involving Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) is creating considerable concern among social media companies and other website operators....more

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