Posted on 12/22/2016 5:00:53 AM PST by tekrat
They don’t have the “deep pockets”.
I couldn’t care less if Facebook were gone tomorrow.
It is an interesting legal tactic and a legit one. I like lawyers who think outside the box
Point 1: Not Guilty
Google, Facebook, and other social media websites are safe in this case for now. You can't control what other people say on your service or what you index from other websites.The federal Communications Decency Act gives nearly complete immunity. This mainly is because people still have abandoned (zombie) websites running that they're not moderating.
Right now those comment sections are mainly ad bait. However someone from a violent hate group like ISIS could be posting propaganda or coded messages to trigger events. The website is on something like AngelFire or Google Sites is no longer maintained. Who is at fault? It's not owner because they didn't do the posts and they're not doing the hosting. The evil people did the evil deed.
Point 2: Lay of Unintended Consequences
This protection could be going away. With all these 'fake news' laws and guidelines going into effect all these websites as now doing professing strict filtering of their content. Now that they ARE managing their content they may not longer be under the protection of the Communications Decency Act. The CDA protects you if you are NOT actively filterer or only doing minimum filtering.
They are now supposedly doing strict filtering. So Google, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace (had toss that in there), ect. are no longer covered by this act. So by being political correct they've cut their own throats for the future lawsuit.
But a way to lock them up and most importantly shut down the content.
All of these self radicalized dopes, got it from the Internet.
Well, that's just stupid on their part.
They should be suing the school administration for failing to protect the students, demanding their resignations. Same with the theater in Colorado.
Right. If Google and Facebook are liable for this mutant’s actions, then so is a bank whose ATM is used to withdraw cash to buy his ammunition.
While I have moral objections to the far left management practices of those companies, I object to this frivolous lawsuit. Getting rich off of mass murder is reprehensible, even when the person victimized by the predatory lawsuit is someone we don’t like.
At least the Judge was not stupid.
The BLM movement likewise uses FB to organize riots and criminal mayhem.
‘SOME’ animals are more equal than others on the animal farm.
Anyone victimized but the Black Lies Matter Klan should also sue Google and facebarf.
free republic doesnt sell your information, without consent I add, for fun and profit.
AND, those three only exist because there is THE INTERNET. SO.... these families need to sue AL GORE, the INVENTOR OF THE INTERNET..
The problem with that is, WHO decides what is a Radical Web Site for Terror ?
Correction, should read victimized by BLM
I hear ya, a fine line but to coin an old saying about Porn. You know it when you see it.
So there must specific things we could put on the check list like be-headings, a call to arms, describing ways to murder people, recommeding and promoting the killing of others. etc
Too bad they can’t sue the idiots in government enabling the carnage.
I don’t care if Facebook disappears tomorrow either, but I do care about liberty.
This would have been a lot better if they had sued Islam.
Good. The social media companies have gone over to the left and are aiding and abetting muzzlim terrorists. They need to be stripped of all their assets.
Why don’t they sue the city for supplying the roads he used to get to the club? Or the carrier his cell phone is connected to.
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