It’s no exaggeration to say that Section 230 is in large part responsible for the modern Internet we have today. In other words, no more suing websites for user created content. Section 230 states that the creator of content, not the website that hosts it, is liable for the content. This injustice of holding a website for speech created by their users was the catalyst for a law that would change the Internet forever, known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Because Prodigy moderated their message board, something not all other websites at the time did, New York Supreme Court found them liable for defamation though no one at Prodigy had written about Stratton Oakmont. But they didn’t sue the anonymous poster who had written the truth about the firm, instead they sued Prodigy for hosting their speech. Stratton Oakmont wasn’t too keen on someone calling a spade a spade, so they sued for defamation. In 1994, one poster described the Stratton Oakmont as “a cult of brokers who either lie for a living or get fired” along with accusations of other illegal activity. MoneyTalk was a popular message board on Prodigy where people posted about stocks and finances. The Reddit of the day was an online service known as Prodigy. Even in the early days of the Internet these sorts of illegal tactics had caught the eye of investors online.
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