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To: Janice Shell who wrote (24643)2/8/2000 9:18:00 PM
From: Arcane Lore  Read Replies (2) of 26163
 
A useful (IMO) primer on the liability of Internet chat boards for potentially defamatory messages posted at their site:

ssbb.com

An extract from the above:

The Standard of Care for Electronic Information Providers

[...]The Good Samaritan Provision of the Telecommunications Act of 1996

Congress acted to limit the potential liability of computer services for defamation with the enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. In what appears to be a direct response to the Stratton Oakmont case, Congress included in the new Telecommunications Act a provision (47 U.S.C. § 230(c)) designed to protect "good samaritan" services which exercise some editorial control over user postings. This exception prevents a service from being treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another content provider, and further precludes treating such a service as a publisher or speaker simply because it makes voluntary, good faith efforts to restrict other content providers from posting objectionable material, regardless of whether or not such material is constitutionally protected. [...]

The article goes on to discuss several cases brought subsequent to the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
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