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Every ISP is now legally liable for every posting made by their users. Including the White House ISP Trump uses to tweet from. So anything abusive, insulting,
by otakucode 9y ago
Every ISP is now legally liable for every posting made by their users. Including the White House ISP Trump uses to tweet from. So anything abusive, insulting, threatening, etc - they are legally liable for it. They are no longer common carriers like phone companies. If they transmit pornography to a minor, they are legally liable for it, not the site which hosts it. The loss of common carrier status can, and absolutely should, bring these companies to their knees.
Bust out the class action lawsuits.
- trendia 9y agoCan you provide a source for this claim?
- mikestew 9y agoMy assumption is that parent thinks this somehow makes ISPs a common carrier, and that means blah, blah, blah. I’d be supremely surprised if highly-paid corporate lawyers somehow overlooked this. “Where are all these class action suits coming from? What?! $1000/hour and you got pwned by some random guy on the Internet?” Yeah, I don’t think so.