Comments on: Judge Balks At Section 230 Protection For Email Forwarding–Samsel v. DeSoto County School District https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2017/03/judge-balks-at-section-230-protection-for-email-forwarding-samsel-v-desoto-county-school-district.htm Sun, 26 Mar 2017 19:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Eric Goldman https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2017/03/judge-balks-at-section-230-protection-for-email-forwarding-samsel-v-desoto-county-school-district.htm#comment-1805 Sun, 26 Mar 2017 19:20:00 +0000 http://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=17024#comment-1805 In reply to Jason Farnon.

The statute applies to “providers or users of interactive computer services.” That’s where Supermedia and Barrett come in. They explain what it means that Section 230 protects “users” of ICSs–which can include ordinary email users. Eric.

]]> By: Jason Farnon https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2017/03/judge-balks-at-section-230-protection-for-email-forwarding-samsel-v-desoto-county-school-district.htm#comment-1804 Sun, 26 Mar 2017 04:48:00 +0000 http://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=17024#comment-1804 So in these email forwarding cases, what is the “interactive computer service”? The email protocol? If so, then any publishing on the internet would have to be covered by cda. There’s always some protocol involved in internet communication. And in that case wouldn’t the “interactive computer service” language be surplusage. I had always assumed the forwarding had to take place in something like a message forum/bulletin board.

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