{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Online Sex Trafficking, Emojis, and How the Internet Has Changed Law","description":"Duration: 39:31 When Eric Goldman started practicing law, the Internet was a different place from the one we know today: a world of dial-up bulletin boards and web precursors like \u201cUsenet\u201d and \u201cGopher.\u201d The legal aspects of cyberspace were murky at best. \u201cI joined the Cooley Godward firm in Palo Alto in 1994 and I told them I wanted to do Internet law,\u201d recalls Goldman, now a professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law and prominent&amp;nbsp;technology law blogger. \u201cAnd they said, \u2018That sounds great. If we have any Internet law stuff, we\u2019ll let you know.\u201d Since then, Goldman has chronicled how the law has coped with the modern Internet, using his academic perch to try and make sense of a chaotic space. In this episode of Unprecedented, Goldman talks about one of the biggest legal flashpoints for Internet companies \u2014 Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act \u2014 and asks how courts will know when a smiley face emoji really means something more. ","author_name":"Unprecedented","author_url":"http:\/\/unprecedented.libsyn.com\/website","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5735941\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/16915163"}