Disclaimer

Just in case you find something on our website you don’t like, please read the following before attempting to contact us. As always if you feel someone is breaking the rules here, please let us know!

HissingKitty.com is a website that hosts other people's content. As such it is protected by Section 230 of the CDA. For more information on the CDA you can read below or Google the Communications Decency Act. In short the CDA protects websites from 3rd party content hosted on their site.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (a common name for Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996) is a landmark piece of Internet legislation in the United States, codified at 47 U.S.C. § 230.

Section 230(c)(1) provides immunity from liability for providers and users of an “interactive computer service” who publish information provided by others:

“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”

Unlike the more controversial anti-indecency provisions which were later ruled unconstitutional, this portion of the Act remains in force, and enhances free speech by making it unnecessary for online service providers to unduly restrict customers’ actions for fear of being found legally liable for customers’ conduct.

Simply put, this law was enacted…

1) to promote the continued development of the Internet and other interactive computer services and other interactive media;
(2) to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet and other interactive computer services, unfettered by Federal or State regulation;
(3) to encourage the development of technologies which maximize user control over what information is received by individuals, families, and schools who use the Internet and other interactive computer services;
(4) to remove disincentives for the development and utilization of blocking and filtering technologies that empower parents to restrict their children’s access to objectionable or inappropriate online material; and
(5) to ensure vigorous enforcement of Federal criminal laws to deter and punish trafficking in obscenity, stalking, and harassment by means of computer.

Feel free to Google search Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and read more for yourself!