Section 230

Commonly known as the communications decency act of 1996 was never intended to provide legal protection to websites that unlawfully promote and facilitate prostitution and websites that facilitate traffickers in advertising the sale of unlawful sex acts with sex trafficking victims.

Section 230. For critics of the tech industry section 230 has come to symbolize the exceptional treatment from the government that has fueled the growth of a small number of players. Fosta carves out a new exception to section 230 stating that section 230 doesn t apply to civil and criminal charges of sex trafficking or to conduct that promotes or facilitates. Section 230 of the communications act of 1934 47 u s c.

It runs only 26 words long short and to the point. Section 230 is a piece of internet legislation in the united states passed into law as part of the communications decency act cda of 1996 a common name for title v of the telecommunications act of 1996 formally codified as section 230 of the communications act of 1934 at 47 u s c. Trump s executive order challenging section 230 focuses primarily on how platforms moderate content arguing that the law allows tech giants to restrict freedom of speech.