Schneider v. Amazon. Com, Inc.

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• holding that Amazon.com was immune from liability for negative comments posted on its web site because, as an interactive web site operator, it was a provider of interactive computer services and, although it could edit postings, it was not an information content provider
• holding that 16 Amazon is an “interactive computer service” because its website “enables visitors to the site to 17 comment about authors and their work, thus providing an information service that necessarily 18 enables access by multiple users to a server”
• website not \information content provider\ although it had strict posting guidelines and could edit and republish posted material
• website not \information content provider\ although it had strict posting guidelines and could edit and republish posted material
• provider of interactive computer service agreed that one or more postings violated guidelines and should be removed, and promised to take steps to remove the postings within one to two business days, but failed to do so
• on-line bookstore Amazon.com is an \interactive computer service\

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