Wikipedia exempt from liability, judge rules
A Judge in New Jersey has ruled that the Communications Decency Act exempts the Wikimedia Foundation from liability in a defamation suit filed by a literary agent.
The agent had found her name on a web site dedicated to bad agents and then from there anonymous bloggers had magnified the slander about her which had then spread to a Wikipedia article.
Section 230 of the act states, “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”
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