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22 Mar 2023
CDA Section 230 has been called ``The 26
Words that Created the Internet''.
While it is obvious how Sec 230 protects the World Wide Web, it is equally
important for e-mail.
A recent Pennsylvania court case emphasizes this point.
Dr. Thomas, a professor at the Univeristy of Pennysylvania forwarded an article about another
professor Dr. Monge to an online e-mail discussion list.
Dr. Monge claimed the article was
defamatory and sued Dr Thomas, the university, and many others.
But since neither Dr Thomas, nor the university were the author of the article,
under Sec 230 they were quickly dismissed from the case.
This is good news for anyone who (like me) runs mailing lists for other people.
If we were legally responsible for everything anyone said on a list, the number
of lists would be a whole lot smaller.
But Sec 230 doesn't just protect mailing lists. It also protect spam filtering,
and on the modern Internet, mail without filtering would be unusable.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/sec230spam.html
11 Jan 2023
We hear that the widely touted ChatGPT can do a respectable job writing high school
essays, malware ransom notes, and the like. When it writes a document,
who owns the copyright?
An acquaintance asked ChatGPT for its advice and unsurprisingly it suggested
updating copyright law to give special recognition to material written
by AI software. (Tomorrow I plan to ask an herbalist if I should use more herbs.)
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/notai.html
29 Nov 2022
The usually perceptive Tim Harford has a column in the current Financial
Times complaning that since he can move his phone number from one carrier
to another, why can't he move his social media account from Twitter to
Mastodon. If only it were that simple.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/notport.html
19 Sep 2022
The ever-entertaining Fifth Circuit has recently upheld a strange Texas law that forbids
most kinds of social media moderation.
(Techdirt explains many of the reasons the
court is wrong, so I won't try.)
This brings us to the trendy question of whether Facebook, Twitter, et al. should be
treated as common carriers.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/common.html
06 Mar 2022
Last week the Ukrainian government sent a letter to ICANN
asking them to revoke the “.ru”, “.рф” and “.su” top-level domains.
It also said they were asking RIPE, which manages IP addresses in Europe, to revoke
Russian IP addresses. Both ICANN and RIPE said no.
Other people have explained why it would have been a policy disaster, but beyond that,
neither would actually have worked.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/notru.html
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