Perspective
Mar. 9, 2017
Airtight immunity for web publishers
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act remains an extremely powerful shield against liability for web publishers, but only for those that heed the lessons from cases where it did not apply. By Christian P. Foote
If web publishers were held responsible for information and comments posted by other people, the internet as we know it would cease to exist. We would never have known companies like Facebook or Twitter, as social media consists almost entirely of information provided by others. So too with all message boards, Craigslist, Wikipedia and so on.
Congress recognized early on that the growth of a vibrant and robust internet...
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