Internet Immunity and the Freedom to Code.

The author discusses the question of Internet content providers' liability regarding third-party content. He mentions Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act passed in 1996 which shielded Internet providers from liability, the possible innovations in programming that such immunity encouraged,...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 62; no. 9; pp. 22 - 25
Main Author:	Goldman, Eric
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Sep2019
Subjects:	Internet content management systems User-generated content Internet intermediary liability Communications Decency Act, 1996 (United States) Computer programming Internet content moderation
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