Paying the Pied Piper: An Examination of Internet Service Provider Liability for Third Party Speech

Abstract

No invention since the telephone has had as great an impact on the way society communicates as the internet. Through the internet more than two billion people explore new worlds, go to places they never could have imagined, attain knowledge otherwise unavailable, and communicate with people otherwise unreachable.  However, opening new channels of communication is just the beginning of the potential capabilities of the internet.