The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet
by Jeff Kosseff · first published 2019
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"This book examines the history and future of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provides websites extraordinary legal immunity for user-generated content and is responsible for the modern Internet in the United 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.' Did you know that these twenty-six words are responsible for much of America's multibillion-dollar online industry? What we can and cannot write, say, and do online is based on just one l
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I feel like I’ve said this a hundred times in the last 30 days but you should read the book “The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet” for a really good history of why we have Sec. 230 and what it was intended to “solve”. It’s an interesting topic that’s the subject of intense debate amongst people on both sides who don’t fully understand…
on “You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 of the CDA” ↗You should read the book “The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet” - Section 230 does not at all work the way most people think it does.
on “The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours” ↗…https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/13/610/section-230-... > The classic example involves Yelp, explains Jeff Kosseff, a cybersecurity law professor at the United States Naval Academy and author of The Twenty-Six Words That Created The Internet, a book about Section 230. If someone posts a defamatory restaurant review on Yelp, Section 230 ensures that the restaurant can sue the person who wrote the review, but not Yelp itself. It protects everything…
on “Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias” ↗The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet: "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." -Section 230 [1] https://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Six-Words-That-Created-Interne...
on “Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content” ↗