No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider. Today, this law still sits at the heart of a major question about the modern Internet: How much responsibility do online platforms have for how their users behave or get treated? Most egregiously, the law has been used to defend, a website featuring ads for sex with children forced into prostitution. But the journey of Section 230 runs through some of the darkest corners of the Web. This 1996 statute became known as " a core pillar of Internet freedom" and " the law that gave us modern Internet" - a critical component of free speech online. The ruling led to a new law, co-authored by Cox and often called simply "Section 230." The case that caught the congressman's attention involved some posts on a bulletin board - the early-Internet precursor to today's social media. This moment, in a way, ends up changing his life - and, to this day, it continues to change ours. One article about a recent court decision catches his eye. It's 1995, and Chris Cox is on a plane reading a newspaper.
A 1996 law sits at the heart of a major question about the modern Internet: How much responsibility should fall to online platforms for how their users act and get treated?
0 kommentar(er)
