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Gonzalez v. Google LLC, 598 U.S. 617 (2023), was a case at the Supreme Court of the United States which dealt with the question of whether or not recommender systems are covered by liability exemptions under section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934, which was established by section 509 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, for Internet service providers (ISPs) in dealing with terrorism ...
Prior to the Internet, case law was clear that a liability line was drawn between publishers of content and distributors of content; a publisher would be expected to have awareness of material it was publishing and thus should be held liable for any illegal content it published, while a distributor would likely not be aware and thus would be immune.
The Republicans were further emboldened when Justice Clarence Thomas, in a dissenting opinion in the 2020 case Malwarebytes, Inc. v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC, suggested that Section 230 gives too much immunity to service providers and that its goals should be revisited. [4] In 2021, Florida passed State Bill 7072 and Texas passed House ...
Any change to Section 230 is likely to have ripple effects on online speech around the globe. “The rest of the world is cracking down on the internet even faster than the U.S.,” Goldman said.
In a victory for social media sites, the justices declined Thursday to rule on a challenge to Section 230, which protects websites from being sued over its users' posts.
Zeran v. America Online, Inc., 129 F.3d 327 (4th Cir. 1997), [2] is a case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit determined the immunity of Internet service providers for wrongs committed by their users under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
New bipartisan legislation would sunset Section 230 after next year.
Pages in category "Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .