In Zeran v. America Online, a federal court held AOL immune from a libel lawsuit because of a provision in the Telecom Act of 1996. But some later court decisions have said the statutory immunity is not absolute. Explain
What will be an ideal response?
[In order to encourage screening of electronic bulletin board services, Congress in the Telecom Act included a provision, section 230, saying that no interactive computer service shall be deemed a "publisher" of information provided by other persons. So even if the service provider acted to edit out offensive messages, it would not incur the usual liability of publishers such as newspapers. The court indeed interpreted the statute to immunize AOL in the Zeran case, where AOL had attempted, ineffectively, to remove messages. However, in Grace v. eBay the court said section 230 still allowed distributor-level liability. This means a service operator could still be liable for others' content if it knew of defamatory content.]
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A. spreading the news. B. Web-based marketing. C. viral marketing. D. interconnecting essential publics.
Shondra heard the teacher say everyone did fine on the test, but he was frowning as he said it, so Shondra thinks the class didn't do well. By basing her understanding of the message on the nonverbal cue, Shondra is exhibiting a(n) __________ culture.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).