Abstract
The Communications Decency Act (CDA) provides Internet platforms complete liability protection from user-generated content. This Article discusses the costs of this current legal framework and several potential solutions. It proposes three modifications to the CDA that would use a carrot and stick to incentivize companies to take a more active role in addressing some of the most blatant downsides of user-generated content on the Internet. Despite the modest nature of these proposed changes, they would have a significant impact.
Citation
Steven Beale, Online Terrorist Speech, Direct Government Regulation, and the Communications Decency Act, 16 Duke Law & Technology Review 333-350 (2018)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dltr/vol16/iss1/11