Sentences with phrase «by the communications decency»

Certain portions of DatingBits.Com, which may contain content considered offensive to some, are inaccessible to individuals under the age of 18 via a standard «credit card» wall, as advocated by the Communications Decency Act.

While third parties are protected from such suits in the United States by the Communications Decency Act, Canada has no such protection, he says, and that raises «a significant threat of «libel chill.»»

A federal judge in Los Angeles agreed with Airbnb that it's insulated from the claims by the Communications Decency Act.

Not exact matches

The appeals court has ruled previously that the 1996 Communications Decency Act lets websites provide «neutral tools» to post material online and that they can not be held liable for libelous or potentially libelous material posted by third parties.

The Communications Decency Act, Section 230, protects Facebook from being held responsible for such mishaps as the spread of hoax news stories — like the one that falsely claimed Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly had been fired from Fox — as well as defamatory comments posted by users.

Another option would be to revisit Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a 1996 law that provides immunity from liability to online platforms for content generated by its users.

The protections for online publishers come from Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 which states: «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.»

Grindr has filed a motion to dismiss based on the Communications Decency Act that immunizes providers of interactive computer services against liability for information provided by other parties.

In recent months similar cases have been dismissed in courts in California and Texas against MySpace.com and Craiglist.com using the Communications Decency Act, a law which protects forum providers on the Internet against legal claims arising from posts made by third parties.

The blog post does not include the court documents but says that is based on the grounds that the AG's threats «represent an unconstitutional prior restraint on free speech and are clearly barred by federal law,» to wit, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

EFF filed an amicus brief in support of Dontdatehimgirl in December, arguing that the site can not be held liable for comments written by others under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Even in the US, where s. 230 of the Communications Decency Act gives very broad immunity to intermediaries, that immunity is for content provided by others.

According to the NY Times, the matter is governed by Title 15, Chapter 22 of the U.S. Federal Code (Trademarks)(a.k.a. the Lanham Act) and the Communications Decency Act.

And former Kozinski law clerk Circuit Judge Sandra S. Ikuta issued an opinion concurring in part (and by implication dissenting in part) in which she makes clear that, in her view, the Communications Decency Act should protect the web site from all claims asserted under the Fair Housing Act that are based on information supplied by the web site's users.

Lida Rodriguez - Taseff, one of the lawyers representing Joseph, told the Post-Gazette that her client is protected by the federal Communications Decency Act, which immunizes Web hosts against liability for messages posted by others.

Is Yelp saying hey, tough noogies, you can't sue us, because our ass is covered from liability for defamation claims by our reviewers under the Communications Decency Act of 1996, and trying to police which reviews are real and which aren't would be enormously time - consuming and expensive and involve us officiating disputes that we really don't want to devote resources to?

He argues, first, that lawyers can not be held liable for endorsements posted by third parties, because any ethics restrictions would be preempted by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Recently, upon Google's request for the US District Court for Northern California's intervention, Justice Edward Davila took the position that due to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — which prevents online platforms from being held responsible for content posted by others — the Canadian order could not be enforced against Google in the United States.

On an issue of first impression in North Carolina, the North Carolina Court of Appeals held that StubHub could not be held liable for the resale of allegedly overpriced Hannah Montana concert tickets by third - party sellers on its website based on federal immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

The bill updates Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which shields companies from liability for content posted by their users.

over SESTA — a bill currently working its way through Congress that seeks to curb human trafficking through online platforms — and the risk that domestic platform companies face of losing (at least in part) the immunity provided by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.