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Chilling Effects: The Communications Decency Act And The Online Marketplace Of Ideas, Anthony M. Ciolli
Chilling Effects: The Communications Decency Act And The Online Marketplace Of Ideas, Anthony M. Ciolli
Anthony M Ciolli
The popularization of the Internet has ensured that, for the first time in human history, speech is in a position where it can become truly free. In 1996 Congress, hoping to preserve and promote a vibrant and competitive free marketplace of ideas on the Internet, passed Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a controversial statute that grants the owners of private online forums and other Internet intermediaries unprecedented immunity from liability for defamation and related torts committed by third party users. Since then, a fierce debate has raged over how to strike the proper balance between the seemingly competing …