(JustPatriots.com)- Twitter Inc. was found not liable in a 2021 lawsuit filed by a feminist blogger who claimed the company had unjustly banned as hateful behavior for posting thoughts critical of transgender persons. YouTube, owned by Google Inc, was accused of censoring information submitted by homosexual and transgender users, but a federal judge in California dismissed the case against the company in 2022.
An expansive kind of protection established by U.S. law for internet providers has effectively thwarted this and other claims. The Communications Decency Act of 1996, specifically Section 230, absolves hosting services of all legal obligations for user-generated material.
A report revealed that Twitter users applauded the suspension of Alex Jones and Laura Loomer, and the platform assured that they had created a safe place. Was this the case?
Based on a brief examination conducted in 2020, the study concluded that hundreds of active Twitter accounts had been sharing illegal underage exploitation content through hashtags for years.
According to reports, the United States Supreme Court will discuss the reach of Section 230 for the first time in a significant case to be heard this week. Experts in the legal field have warned that if this protection is weakened, internet service providers might be open to lawsuits from every angle.
A California woman, Nohemi Gonzalez, killed in a 2015 Islamic terrorist assault in Paris, will argue before the Supreme Court in an appeal against Alphabet seeking monetary damages. They cited Section 230.
Alphabet includes Google and YouTube.
The family alleged that YouTube’s computer algorithms improperly pushed videos by the Islamic State extremist organization, which claimed responsibility for the assaults, to particular viewers.
In a petition to the Supreme Court, Google warned that an adverse decision might open up a “litigation minefield” for the firm. According to the corporation and its backers, such a move might change the fundamental nature of the internet, making it less valuable, threatening free expression, and harming the economy. Which, ironically, is the same thing Alphabet is accused of doing.
