The California Supreme Court has ruled that no provider or user of an interactive computer service will be responsible for putting material on the Internet that was written by someone else, according to EFF.


The California Supreme Court has ruled that no provider or user of an interactive computer service will be responsible for putting material on the Internet that was written by someone else, according to EFF.

EFF Announcement

“Today’s ruling affirms that blogs, websites, listservs, and ISPs like Yahoo!, as well as individuals like defendant Ilena Rosenthal, are protected under Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act (CDA), which explicitly states that ‘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.'” [source]

Ann Brick, staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California, said: “By reaffirming that Congress intended to grant protection under Section 230 to those who provide a forum for the views of others, the Court has ensured that the Internet will remain a vibrant forum for debate and the free exchange of ideas,

Any other ruling would have inevitably made speech on the Internet less free”. [source]

The California Supreme Court’s full decision is available at www.eff.org.

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