And coincidentally, EFF published an interview with Michelle on this topic
on Friday:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/cda-230-success-cases-wikipedia
Good summary of why this issue matters to WM.
Luis
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Luis Villa <lvilla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi, all-
As some of you certainly know, Section 230 of the Communications Decency
Act[1] is a key legal tool that we use to protect speech on Wikipedia.
A group of state-level attorney generals have recently asked the US
federal government to weaken Sec. 230. A couple of organizations have
weighed in on the proposal:
CDT:
https://www.cdt.org/blogs/andrew-mcdiarmid/2507section-230-under-attack-sta…
EFF:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/state-ags-threaten-gut-cda-230-speech…
And a more academic take from Eric Goldman:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2287622&download=yes
This is fairly core to what we do, obviously, so Stephen and I are
monitoring it closely. Your involvement (questions, proposals for action,
proposals for inaction, etc.) is (as always!) welcome.
Luis
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communications_Decency_Act
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