[Advocacy Advisors] Attorney Generals propose changes to Section 230

Mon Jul 29 18:55:45 UTC 2013

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 at 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-state-ags%E2%80%99-proposal-threatens-internet-we-know-i
>
> EFF:
> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/state-ags-threaten-gut-cda-230-speech-protections
>
> 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
>
> --
> Luis Villa
> Deputy General Counsel
> Wikimedia Foundation
> 415.839.6885 ext. 6810
>
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Wikimedia Foundation
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