Advocacy Groups to Report Google-Funded CDA Defense Helps Exploitive Sites
Advocacy groups will report Wednesday about Google's support for Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which they said protects "notorious hub of child sex trafficking, Backpage.com, from any accountability," said Consumer Watchdog Tuesday. CW, the Faith & Freedom Coalition,…
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Rebecca Project, Trafficking in America Task Force and "Nacole S.," the mother of a trafficking victim will urge tech companies to back a change in Section 230 -- which is designed to protect website operators from lawsuits arising out of third-party content -- that will permit families of trafficking victims to hold accountable websites that aid and abet child sex traffickers. Google didn't immediately respond. Nacole S.'s daughter sued Backpage.com in 2014 with two other victims, saying the company engaged in sex trafficking of minors in violation of the federal 2008 Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act and the Massachusetts version (see 1603180035). In January, Nacole S. testified before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, probing the online classified advertiser for 20 months at the time. Backpage.com executives were said to have knowingly facilitated prostitution and child sex trafficking and edited content to conceal evidence (see 1701100001). The 1 p.m. EDT news conference can be viewed via Facebook.