[104329] in Cypherpunks
IP: ISP not liable for customer's messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vladimir Z. Nuri)
Fri Oct 16 01:49:30 1998
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 98 22:38:29 -0700
From: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>
Reply-To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>
From: "Peter J. Celano" <celano@ic.net>
Subject: IP: ISP not liable for customer's messages
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 13:25:31 -0400
To: ignition-point@majordomo.pobox.com
INTERNET PROVIDER NOT LIABLE FOR MESSAGES OF ITS CUSTOMERS
An appeals court in Florida has ruled against a woman who sued
America Online because one of its customers, a convicted sex
offender, used an AOL chat group to try to sell the woman's
11-year-old son a pornographic video. The court said that federal law
protects online services from being held liable for the messages
transmitted by their members sell the videotape of the boy. The
defeated lawsuit, which is being appealed to the Supreme Court, tried
to characterize America Online as "a home shopping network for
pedophiles and child pornographers." (AP/Washington Post 15 Oct 98)
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