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<b><i>Commentary:</i></b> Social Networking Safety Act: A Mistaken Effort

By New Jersey Law Journal Editorial
August 27, 2009

[Editor's Note: Our Incisive Media affiliate, New Jersey Law Journal, published the following commentary on the New Jersey legislature's attempt to react to the "sexting" issue by making Web site operators liable for what users write. Since the federal Communications Decency Act specifically excuses site operators from such liability, the NJLJ editors, after examining the proposed NJ legislation, wonder what possible purpose such legislation might serve. The commentary demonstrates the "rock and a hard place" situation that states face as they try to protect children from the malicious and/or sexually explicit aspects of the social networking phenomenon. For another example, see, "Internet Child Porn Search Is 'Knowing Possession' in PA" in the July issue of Internet Law & Strategy, available online at www.ljnonline.com/issues/ljn_internetlaw/7_7/news/152390-1.html.]

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