Posts tagged with "Section 230"
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Snapchat not liable for enabling teacher to groom minor student
June 28, 2023 - A high school science teacher used Snapchat to send sexually explicit content to one of her students, whom she eventually assaulted. Authorities uncovered this abuse . . .
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Amazon gets Section 230 win over alleged defamatory product review
June 13, 2023 - Customer ordered a scarf from plaintiffs' Amazon store. Customer left a review claiming the scarf was not a real Burberry. When neither customer nor Amazon . . .
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Section 230 immunity did not protect Omegle in product liability lawsuit
July 17, 2022 - When plaintiff was 11 years old, she was connected to a man in his late thirties using Omegle (a "free online chat room that randomly . . .
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Can a person be liable for retweeting a defamatory tweet?
May 12, 2022 - Under traditional principles of defamation law, one can be liable for repeating a defamatory statement to others. Does the same principle apply, however, on social . . .
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Omegle protected by Section 230 against claims for child pornography, sex trafficking and related claims
January 12, 2022 - Omegle is a notorious website where you can be randomly placed in a chat room (using video, audio and text) with strangers on the internet. . . .
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Section 230 did not protect Snapchat from negligence liability in car crash lawsuit over Speed Filter
May 4, 2021 - The tragic facts Landen Brown was using Snapchat's Speed Filter in 2017 when the car in which he was riding with two other young men . . .
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HuffPost protected by Section 230 in Carter Page defamation suit
February 14, 2021 - Carter Page sued the publisher of the HuffPost over some 2016 articles about the Russia collusion matter that Page claimed were defamatory. These articles were . . .
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Section 230 protected Google in illegal gambling lawsuit over loot boxes
February 11, 2021 - Plaintiffs sued Google claiming that loot boxes in games available through the Google Play store were illegal "slot machines or devices". (Players who buy loot . . .
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Section 230 immunity protected Twitter from claims it aided and abetted defamation
September 22, 2020 - Twitter enjoyed Section 230 immunity for aiding and abetting defamation because plaintiffs' claims on that point did not transform Twitter into a party that created . . .
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