Host: Colette Vogele

Guest: Kurt Opsahl, Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Kurt’s work at the EFF focuses on civil liberties, free speech and privacy law. Before joining EFF, Opsahl worked at Perkins Coie, where he represented technology clients with respect to intellectual property, privacy, defamation, and other online liability matters. Kurt also has past affiliations as research fellow to Professor Pamela Samuelson at the U.C. Berkeley School of Information Management & Systems. Kurt also co-authored the Electronic Media and Privacy Law Handbook.

Topics for Episode 010: In today’s episode, we continue our interivew with Kurt Opsahl Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The CDA protects intermediaries of contenton the internet from claims that should be directed at the users rather than the intermediaries. Our discussion goes through examples of what sorts of conduct will bring an intermediary within the scope of the protection, and what sorts of activity will put the intermediary at risk.