The Internet Archive is challenging a New...
The Internet Archive is challenging a New Jersey state law that makes online service providers criminally liable for providing access to third parties’ materials, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a Thursday release (http://bit.ly/14xne0U). The law conflicts with federal law…
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and threatens the free flow of information on the Internet, said EFF, which will represent the Internet Archive in the suit. “The New Jersey statute is an almost carbon copy of a law successfully blocked by EFF and the Internet Archive last year,” it said. The law, specifically section 12(b)(1) of the Human Trafficking Prevention, Protection, and Treatment Act, could impose stiff penalties on ISPs, Internet cafes and libraries that indirectly cause the publication, dissemination or display of content that contains an implicit offer of a commercial sex act and the image of a minor, EFF said. A hearing on the Internet Archive’s request for a preliminary injunction against the law is set for Friday at the U.S. District Court in Newark, it said.