Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects websites, blogs, and forums from being held liable for user-generated content. It prevents these online platforms from being treated as the publisher or speaker of information uploaded by users. Without this law, sites could be sued for any illegal or offensive posts, and may feel pressure to extensively moderate content. While CDA 230 shields sites from liability, some argue it also allows harmful speech to proliferate without oversight. The law is critical to online speech but challenges determining the proper role of platforms in governing information.

1. Section 230 of the
Communications
Decency Act of 1996
Law Protecting
Internet Speech
CDA
230

2. Here’s what you’ll find in this Slides:
1. What is CDA 230
2. What’s the CDA protect’s
3. What happen if there is no CDA to protect online speech
4. Pakistan Telecommunication Act
5. CDA pro and cons
6. Countries that don’t have CDA 230:
7. Refrences
8. Conclusion
9. Thanks
Contents of Law CDA 230

3. What is CDA 230
CDA 230 is a federal law
that prevents websites,
blogs, and forums from
being held responsible for
the speech of user
C CDA
230

4. “No provider or user of an
interactive computer service
shall be treated as the publisher
or specker of any information
provided by another information
contecnt provider .”

5. What CDA,s Protect
CDA 230 protects web services and social
networks, such as face book, twitter and blogs
,from being held responsible from hosting or
facilitating online speech without it, service
providers would become targets for individuals
,Government and corporations who want to limit
free expressions under CDA 230. Service
providers are categorically protected against
more legal claims based on what their user say
or do ,which means that they can’t be forced to
censor user content

6. IF THERE IS NO CDA
230!!!
01
Sites like face book ,
twitter ,Google and Reddit
could be sued every time a
user crossed the line
02
Blogs review sites ,forums
and other sites that deal
with controversial issues
could be pressured to
silence unpopular opinions
03
Innovation would be
diminished as new social
media platform and products
would face new legal
obstacles to getting started
04
Sites may feel pressure to
limit real time posts in
order to review them to
avoid liability
What happen
if there is
no CDA
to protect
online
speech

7. What Pakistan
Telecommunication Act
Says about CDA 230
Under Pakistan’s new law (Citizens Protection (Against
Online Harm) Rules 2020), which falls under the 1996
Pakistan Telecommunication Act and 2016 Prevention
of Electronic Crimes Act, social media platforms like
Face book, Google and Twitter are obliged to block or
remove posts deemed objectionable by Islamabad.
Information that the federal government can demand
ranges from personal information to traffic and content
data. In addition, online platforms will have to remove
any content that the government deems ‘unlawful’
within 24 hours and in special emergency cases in
under six hours

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What are pro and cons
of CDA 230
Please keep this slide for attribution.
1-This law protect the social media plate forms as they are not
responsible as described
"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall
be treated as the publisher
2- Bloggers are not liable for comments left by readers.
But
1- Websites, blogs, and social networks that host speech with
protection against a range of laws that might otherwise hold them
legally responsible for what their users say and do.
2- These social platforms ,ISP,s carry enormous amount of
speech and they have no audit or evaluation system

9.  Thailand 2007 computer crimes
act hold bloggers and ISPS criminal
liable if someone using there service or
site criticize the Thai Royal family and
distributes photos designed to harm
someone’s reputation
 In turkey it’s a crime to criticize
the founder of turkey republic or to
disparage “Turkishness” the turkey
govt. has banned YouTube, several
times for hosting videos in violation
of these laws
Counties that don’t have CDA
230 (real life example
J Turkey
Thailand

10. ● https://www.eff.org/files/cda230.jpg
● https://www.isas.nus.edu.sg/papers/regulating-
cyberspace-pakistans-new-social-media-rules/
● https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
● https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230/
● https://youtu.be/yZGaFDy4xSo
References

11. At the end we can say that it’s a good initiative
to protect the Social media platforms but if
these platforms are the gents of social media
and earned billions then they should have to
create a “content restriction system” to make
it clear and clean
E.G : Face book has received around 31 per
cent of the 18,000 content restriction requests
globally from January to July 2019.
Conclusion

12. Thanks