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• Schrödinger’s Bill

  Posted on January 25, 2021 at 01:15 CST by Max Stul Oppenheimer • Comment in the Forums
  

  Legal Brief

  Schrödinger’s Bill

  By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq.

  The recently passed Consolidated Appropriations Act includes provisions that should be of interest to those involved in e-commerce or whose use of the Internet involves copyrights.

  In March 2010, when House Speaker Pelosi told the National Association of Counties that we needed to pass the Affordable Care Act in order to find out what’s in it, few saw the humorous reference to one of the most famous parables of modern physics: Schrödinger’s cat.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.3.0 (2021-01-25).

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• Understanding Section 230

  Posted on January 10, 2021 at 11:00 CST by Max Stul Oppenheimer • Comment in the Forums

  Legal Brief

  Understanding Section 230

  By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq.

  Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, over two decades old, is top-of-mind once again.

  In order to understand the current debate over limiting or repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, it is necessary to take a brief detour back to high-school civics and the Constitution — specifically, the First Amendment. Among its provisions is the protection of free speech. A century ago, no less a figure than Oliver Wendell Holmes observed in a Supreme Court case that, although extremely important, the protection of the First Amendment was not without limit. As he put it, “the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing panic.”

  While the First Amendment is often cited as guaranteeing the right to free speech, it actually is much more limited than that.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.1.0 (2021-01-11).

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