The Case of Carafano V.Metrosplash.com,Inc.held That

question 4

Multiple Choice

The case of Carafano v.Metrosplash.com,Inc.held that

• A)the Fourth Amendment applies to computers.
• B)Congress, in enacting the Communications Decency Act, intended that ISPs should not be held liable for information provided by someone else.
• C)Congress had weighed free speech interests with protection of the public from offensive or obscene materials and determined that protection of the public was more important in the Internet setting.
• D)Matchmaker, because it had provided the questionnaires for collecting information from its users, must be considered an "information content provider" under the Communications Decency Act, and it is therefore liable under the Act.

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