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Court Corrects Section 230 Opinion on Recommendation of CDT and Others - At the urging of CDT, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an "amended" decision in the Barnes v. Yahoo! case, correcting two serious errors that had been included in the court's initial decision. CDT and others had filed a "friend of the court" brief urging the court to delete language that limited service providers' ability to be protected by "Section 230," a provision which enhances free speech online by protecting service providers from liability for content posted by their users. The court made the exact changes that both Yahoo! (as a party) and CDT, Public Citizen, and others that had signed onto the original brief had urged. June 24, 2009
Share this articleCDT Tells FCC To Include Openness, Privacy in Broadband Plan - In comments submitted to the FCC on Monday, CDT stressed that a national broadband plan should include a commitment to maintain and indeed strengthen the legal and policy framework that has enabled the Internet to become such a dynamic and innovative medium. CDT also recommended that the plan feature further measures to safeguard the Internet's open character, promote online privacy, harness broadband to achieve greater transparency in government, and more. June 09, 2009
Share this articleCDT Joins Brief Urging Court to Correct Errors on Section 230 - CDT has joined Public Citizen and other groups on a "friend of the court" brief urging a U.S. Appeals Court to correct a point in a recent decision regarding "Section 230," a provision which enhances free speech online by protecting service providers from liability for content posted by their users. Section 230 is vital because without it, private sites such as Yahoo! or Youtube could not risk allowing Internet users to freely post content. In its recent decision in Barnes v. Yahoo!, the court incorrectly limited the ability of service providers to assert the protection of Section 230. The brief supports Yahoo's request to remove the incorrect section of the decision. May 22, 2009
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