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Policy PostsCDT Is Joined on Anti-Spyware Brief by Wide Range of Groups and Companies - In a friend-of-the-court brief filed today, CDT argues that anti-spyware vendors should be protected by the liability protections afforded other filtering companies under the Communications Decency Act. CDT was joined by a broad spectrum of Internet and technology industry groups, public interest organizations, civil liberties groups and individual companies that are all committed to the proposition that users should be empowered to control their own Internet experiences. The brief urges the court to protect anti-spyware vendors from liability in cases brought to intimidate anti-spyware vendors into ignoring spyware. May 05, 2008
Share this articleLiability Protection for Internet Content Venues Threatened - Over the past few months, the Center for Democracy & Technology has joined a series of "friend of the court" briefs urging courts to broadly enforce a federal law that shields Internet website operators from liability for content posted by Internet users. This immunity from liability has been a vital underpinning of the explosion of user generated sites such as blogs and video sharing websites. Although many courts have broadly interpreted "Section 230" to protect these websites, an increasing number of cases challenge that protection. Earlier this week, CDT released an analysis of this trend and an overview of the arguments presented by CDT to the courts. Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Roommates.com website and held that Section 230 did not protect the site from a civil lawsuit. CDT believes that the court's decision is an ominous indicator of the threats to openness and free expression online. April 04, 2008
Share this articleSupreme Court to Decide If FCC Can Regulate 'Fleeting Expletives' - The ability of the FCC to punish broadcast stations for airing "fleeting expletives" -- the one-time blurting out of profanity on broadcast programming -- is now in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court announced this week that it will hear a case in which a lower court ruled that the FCC's new policy of penalizing one-time utterances of profanity was illegal under federal administrative law. CDT is concerned that the Supreme Court will reverse the trend of modern free speech precedent by increasing the Commission's power to censor broadcast speech, rather than focus on federal administrative law, as the lower court largely did. March 19, 2008
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