Supreme Court Will Not Examine Tech Industry Legal Shield (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday January 9, 2017 @07:20AM from the steering-clear dept.

An anonymous reader shares a Reuters report: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower court's decision that an online advertising site accused by three young women of facilitating child sex trafficking was protected by a federal law that has shielded website operators from liability for content posted by others. The refusal by the justices to take up the women's appeal in the case involving the advertising website Backpage.com marked a victory for the tech industry, which could have faced far-reaching consequences had the Supreme Court decided to limit the scope of the Communications Decency Act, passed by Congress in 1996 to protect free speech on the internet.

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New Slavery by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-09 07:30 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Isn't it delightful how we're approaching this wonderful new era where things that were wrong and illegal in the real world have become profit centers and legally protected because they're now laced through an internet portal?