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Sex sells, censorship doesn't. That's what Craigslist is learning after it blocked access to its controversial "adult services" listings late last week. The move came two weeks after attorneys ...
Easterbrook, joined by a unanimous court. Chicago Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law v. Craigslist, 519 F.3d 666 (7th Cir. 2008), [1] is a Seventh Circuit decision affirming a lower court ruling that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) provides immunity to Internet service providers that "publish" classified ads that ...
Earliest examples of the use of copyright law to enforce censorship relate to the British government invoking the monopoly of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers to suppress texts it deemed problematic, such as anti-Cromwellian and anti-Caroline satirical writings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Censorship came to British America with the Mayflower "when the governor of Plymouth, Massachusetts, William Bradford learned [in 1629] [4] that Thomas Morton of Merrymount, in addition to his other misdeed, had 'composed sundry rhymes and verses, some tending to lasciviousness' the only solution was to send a military expedition to break up Morton's high-living."
Craig Newmark, the founder of online classified-ads site Craigslist, thinks the U.S. has a cybersecurity problem. The entrepreneur turned philanthropist has pledged to donate $100 million to help ...
yo Internet censorship in the United States is the suppression of information published or viewed on the Internet in the United States. The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects freedom of speech and expression against federal, state, and local government censorship. Free speech protections allow little government-mandated ...
The case involved an ordinance passed after Wilma Scott Heide of the Pittsburgh chapter of the National Organization for Women filed a complaint with the Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations, in which it argued that the practice of the Pittsburgh Press of advertising help wanted classified advertising under headings of "help wanted-male" and "help wanted-female" was discriminatory.
Backpage. Backpage was a classified advertising website founded in 2004 by the alternative newspaper chain New Times Inc./. New Times Media (later known as Village Voice Media or VVM) as a rival to Craigslist. [1] Similar to Craigslist, Backpage let users post ads to categories such as personals, automotive, rentals, jobs and adult services.