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From America Online To America, Online: Reassessing Section 230 Immunity In A New Internet Landscape, Madeleine E. Blair
From America Online To America, Online: Reassessing Section 230 Immunity In A New Internet Landscape, Madeleine E. Blair
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
In 1996, Congress passed the Communications Decency Act, a body of legislation aimed at regulating a nascent internet. Section 230 of the Act has become a subject of contention on both sides of the political aisle due to an immunity provision in the law barring private actions against online service providers for the conduct of those services’ users. Few lawsuits against online entities have survived this immunity provision. But two successful cases, Lemmon v. Snap, Inc. and A.M. v. Omegle.com, LLC, have used a products liability theory to overcome the limitation.
This Note examines Section 230 in light of these …