The U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal includes language that would protect websites from liability for user-posted content.
The deal intended to replace the current NAFTA includes language similar to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a U.S. law that gives online publishers broad immunity for publishing, editing, or removing the content of others. The deal also includes an exception to that immunity for “measures necessary to protect against online sex trafficking.”
A U.S. law enacted earlier this year holds websites liable for intentionally promoting prostitution and knowingly facilitating sex trafficking. That law—the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking ...
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