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Make sure your story is accurate! Websites
cannot possibly monitor the accuracy of the huge volume of
information which their users may choose to post. If a disgruntled
plaintiff were permitted to hold a website liable for information
that the site did not create, this would stifle free speech as fewer
and fewer sites would be willing to permit users to post anything at
all. See generally Batzel v. Smith, 333 F.3d 1018, 1027-28 (9th Cir.
2003) (recognizing, "Making interactive computer services and their
users liable for the speech of third parties would severely restrict
the information available on the Internet. Section 230 [of the CDA]
therefore sought to prevent lawsuits from shutting down websites and
other services on the Internet.")
In general, each and every lower federal
district court and federal appellate court that has construed the
CDA has held that websites like Ripoff Report are immune from
virtually every type of civil liability when the site has been sued
based on information posted by a third party. See Doe v. America
Online, Inc., 783 So.2d 1010 (Fl. 2001); Green v. America Online,
318 F.3d 465, 470 (3rd Cir. 2003) (noting that the CDA, "‘precludes
courts from entertaining claims that would place a computer service
provider in a publisher's role,' and therefore bars ‘lawsuits
seeking to hold a service provider liable for its exercise of a
publisher's traditional editorial functions - such as deciding
whether to publish, withdraw, postpone, or alter content.'");
Carafano v. Metrosplash.com, Inc., 339 F.3d 1119 (9th Cir. 2003);
Schneider v. Amazon.com, Inc., 31 P.3d 37 (Wash.App. 2001); Doe v.
GTE Corp., 347 F.3d 655 (7th Cir. 2003); Zeran v. America Online,
Inc., 129 F.3d 327 (4th Cir. 1997); Blumenthal v. Drudge, 992 F.
Supp. 44 (D. D.C. 1998). |