A Regulatory Proposal for Digital Defamation: Conditioning § 230 Safe Harbor on the Provision of a Site "Rating".

The article focuses on the differences between defamation in traditional and digital media frameworks, and offers suggestions for the regulation of online defamation. It is stated that victims of online defamation are far better situated than their traditional counterparts. The libel laws in the U.S., which focused on compensating harm to private persons, were suited to court cases arising from traditional media, but not for the Internet. According to section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, web site owners will not be liable for information provided by another content provider.