What logic is this?If you can not control what is being published,why do you run an operation?
Shall we apply the same logic to news papers as well stating that Editors have have no time because of sheer volume?
Don’t you have soft ware to block objectionable material?
They are not ‘liable for speech they did not help to create’?
Is this not abetting?
Shall we also say in a muder case,only the actual murderer is to be punished , not the accessory as he ‘did not help create murder’?.Story;
The sheriff of Cook County, Ill., grabbed headlines earlier this year when he sued Craigslist, the online classified advertising forum, for allowing posts that he said promoted prostitution. A federal judge in Chicago wisely threw out the suit last week. As Congress has recognized, if an Internet proprietor had to police every posting that a third party put up, the cost would be enormous — and it would likely stifle communications.
CraigslistCraigslist warns users that offers or solicitations of prostitution are prohibited. Sheriff Thomas Dart argued that its “erotic services” section still included numerous listings for paid sexual services, including some using code words. The company made voluntary changes after the suit was filed, including conducting a manual review of the listings. Late last year, before the suit was filed, it started charging for those ads in an effort to appease critics.
Even without these changes, Craigslist was operating entirely within the law. The Communications Decency Act of 1996 protects “interactive computer services” — ranging from small bloggers to giant Internet service providers — from liability, in most cases, for speech they did not help create.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/opinion/27tue3.html?ref=global
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