A US judge rejects efforts by Alphabet, ByteDance, Meta, and Snap to dismiss hundreds of lawsuits accusing them of enticing and addicting children to their apps
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected efforts by major social media companies to dismiss nationwide litigation accusing …
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Discussion
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@jess_miers
Jess Miers
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BREAKING: The Northern District of California rejected the social media defendants' #Section230 and First Amendment arguments re: user addiction. The federal school district and personal injury MDL will proceed. I unpack the order here. 🧵 https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ...
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@jkosseff
Jeff Kosseff
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Just skimming this opinion and it is a real illustration of the shift in 230 caselaw post-Omegle and Snap opinions. These are the product defect claims that the court concluded are not covered by 230. [image]
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@cagoldberglaw
Carrie Goldberg
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BREAKING: Social media addiction mass tort advanced against Google, Snap, TikTok, Meta!!!! HUGE Section 230 news. (And quite personally vindicating to see the court's reliance on A.M. v Omegle which defendants screech about being radical law.) [image]
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@rebeccamkern
Rebecca Kern
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Big implications of this ruling out of Northern Cali district court that found a lawsuit from 100s of families is allowed to proceed, and some of their claims that Meta, YouTube, TikTok, Snap's have defective products are not blocked by tech's Section 230 liability shield.
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Carrie Goldberg
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@SergioVengeance I recommend reading the decision because there's literally no comparison of age verification in Omegle versus other platforms. The discussion relates to the embrace of Lemmon v Snap, section 230, product liability claims, whether claim treats D as a platform.
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@garossino
Sandy Garossino
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Right on the heels of news that Google paid $26B for its monopoly power, US courts advance a class action against it for adolescent social media addiction. Nevertheless, Canadian pundits will still have its back