#intermediaryliability — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #intermediaryliability, aggregated by home.social.
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With Cox V. Sony The Supreme Court Provides Yet Another Internet-Protecting Decision
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EFF To Court: Don’t Make Embedding Illegal
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/11/eff-to-court-dont-make-embedding-illegal/
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Ron Wyden Is Begging His Colleagues To Stop Trying To Hand Trump A Censorship Weapon
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Section 230 Turns 30; Both Parties Want It Gone—For Contradictory Reasons
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SUMMARY + RESORCES – Internet Society Amicus Brief in Cox v. Sony – US Supreme Court – September 2025
FILING (ISOC) | SUMMARY + RESOURCES (Patreon)
ARCHIVE | PERMALINK
In the case of Cox v. Sony, in 2019, a Virginia jury awarded roughly $1 billion in statutory damages to a group of record labels, led by Sony, ruling that Cox had 'secondary liability' for copyright infringement by its users. In 2024, the Fou
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CW: Long thread/50
This is: Just. Not. True. The US actually has pretty good laws limiting #IntermediaryLiability (that is, the responsibility you bear for what your users do). You know all that stuff about how #CDA230 is "a giveaway to #BigTech?" That's only true if the internet consists solely of Big Tech companies. However, if you decide to spend $5/month hosting a Mastodon instance for you and your community, that same law protects *you*.
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