
Another case where the CDA protected against liability. Remailer ops should look into this. http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/7361.html: A San Francisco judge has ruled that a lawsuit that sought to force an Internet service provider to silence a Usenet participant is barred by the federal Communications Decency Act. At issue was a claim by San Francisco Satanists Michael and Lilith Aquino that San Diego-based ElectriCiti Inc. "breached its duty to the [plaintiffs] and to other Internet users" by failing to take action against an anonymous Usenet poster. The newsgroup participant allegedly harassed Michael Aquino, a former US Army lieutenant colonel and the leader of the Temple of Set, and his wife, Lilith. The claimed harassment took the form of messages referring to the Aquinos' involvement in a ritual child-abuse investigation in San Francisco in the 1980s. The couple was never charged with any wrongdoing. Superior Court judge David Garcia accepted ElectriCiti's contention that the lawsuit violated a little-discussed and still-in-force CDA provision that exempts ISPs from liability for content transmitted on their networks. The law states that "no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." The decision is one of three such cases nationwide that have been thrown out because they attempted to hold ISPs responsible for subscribers' speech, said ElectriCiti's attorney, Roger Myers.