Joseph D’Ambrosio and Andrew I. Mandelbaum write about section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which protects Internet service providers, website hosting services, and domain name registrants / site administrators, and certain other providers of online services, from being treated as the publisher of actionable content placed on their websites by third parties.
Read more here: Blurred Lines: When Does Internet Service Provider Lose Immunity?, (NYLJ, Feb. 20, 2014).