by Adam Thierer
The “best Internet law” – the foundation of our Internet freedoms — celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, yet few people have even heard of it. Many critics now want to gut this important law by “deputizing” online operators to more aggressively police — even censor — their sites for various types of potentially objectionable online content, including: defamation, privacy concerns, pornography, and more. If online intermediaries failed to engage in a more aggressive speech-policing role, they would open themselves up to lawsuits...[continued]
