Legal Information - Immunity
The Vintage Amps Forum is protected under Federal Law by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which states “”no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”
You can find more information in the Barrett v Rosenthal ruling. This ruling affirms that discussion/bulletin boards, blogs, websites, listservs, and ISPs like Yahoo!, as well as individuals like defendant Ilena Rosenthal, are protected under Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act (CDA).
You can find an article commenting on the ruling at this link.
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