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18 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 1 (2016-2017)

handle is hein.journals/cstlr18 and id is 1 raw text is: SECTION 230'S EVOLUTION THE COLUMBIA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW VOL. XVIII STLR.ORG FALL 2016 ARTICLE THE GRADUAL EROSION OF THE LAW THAT SHAPED THE INTERNET: SECTION 230'S EVOLUTION OVER Two DECADESt Jeff Kosseff* I. Introduction .................................................................... 2 II. History and Structure of Section 230 ............................ 4 A. Pre-Section 230: Cubby and Stratton Oakmont ............ 4 B. Congressional Response: Section 230 ........................... 6 C. Structure of Section 230 ................................................. 8 III. Courts' Early Application of Section 230 to Interm ediaries ................................................................................ 10 A. The Early Days of Section 230: Zeran and Seemingly Lim itless Im m unity ........................................................ 10 B. Roommates.com and the Emergence of Modest Limits on Section 230 Immunity ................................. 16 IV. The Gradual Erosion: Analysis of Recent Section 230 D ecisions .................................................................. 22 A. The Claim Did Not Arise from Third-Party Content ..... 22 B. Possibility that the Defendant Developed the Content 25 t This article may be cited as http://www.stlr.org/cite.cgi?volume=18&article=Kosseff. This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. * Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity Law, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD. JD, Georgetown University Law Center. MPP, BA, University of Michigan. 2016]

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