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Australia High Court Delivers Major Blow to Free Speech In Defamation Ruling

JonathanTurley

compensatory damages and $300,000.00 punitive damages. 1997) where Chief Judge Wilkinson wrote for the Fourth Circuit: By its plain language, § 230 creates a federal immunity to any cause of action that would make service providers liable for information originating with a third-party user of the service.

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