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Families of Pulse nightclub shooting sue Google, Facebook
Engadget / REUTERS ^ | 12/21/2016 | Adrees Latif

Posted on 12/22/2016 5:00:53 AM PST by tekrat

Google, Facebook and Twitter are facing a lawsuit filed by the families of three victims killed by Pulse nightclub gunman Omar Mateen in Orlando. The plaintiffs are accusing the tech titans of providing "material support" to Mateen, who was known to have pledged allegiance to ISIS and its leader. According to their lawsuit, the families are suing the companies for allowing the terrorist group to create accounts to raise funds and to spread propaganda with the intention of attracting new recruits.

The material support these tech giants provide, the lawsuit says, "has been instrumental to the rise of ISIS and has enabled it to carry out or cause to be carried out, numerous terrorist attacks." In addition, the plaintiffs are accusing the companies of profiting from ISIS-related posts by combining them with advertisements and of violating the Anti-Terrorism Act in the United States.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: isis; lawsuit; lonegunman; mateen; terrorfunding; terrorism
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To: WayneS

They don’t have the “deep pockets”.

I couldn’t care less if Facebook were gone tomorrow.


21 posted on 12/22/2016 5:40:52 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: tekrat; mrreaganaut

It is an interesting legal tactic and a legit one. I like lawyers who think outside the box


22 posted on 12/22/2016 5:41:41 AM PST by reaganaut (I'm just a historian specializing in religion...)
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To: tekrat
This lawsuit and fake new filtering has just opened Pandora's box on two points:

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.

23 posted on 12/22/2016 5:42:55 AM PST by tekrat
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To: Mr. K

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.


24 posted on 12/22/2016 5:43:58 AM PST by Jimmy The Snake
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
I see this as no different from the families in Sandy Hook suing the gun manufacturer for what the murderer did.

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.

25 posted on 12/22/2016 5:45:59 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: WayneS

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.


26 posted on 12/22/2016 5:52:09 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: tekrat

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.


27 posted on 12/22/2016 5:57:03 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

At least the Judge was not stupid.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/10/14/connecticut-judge-throws-out-sandy-hook-lawsuit-against-gun-manufacturers/?utm_term=.a3a1ed39509f


28 posted on 12/22/2016 5:57:09 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: tekrat

The BLM movement likewise uses FB to organize riots and criminal mayhem.

‘SOME’ animals are more equal than others on the animal farm.


29 posted on 12/22/2016 6:03:51 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: tekrat

Anyone victimized but the Black Lies Matter Klan should also sue Google and facebarf.


30 posted on 12/22/2016 6:04:17 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: Raycpa

free republic doesnt sell your information, without consent I add, for fun and profit.


31 posted on 12/22/2016 6:07:35 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: WayneS
As much as I despise Twitter, Facebook and Google, finding them liable in any way for this guy’s actions would set a dangerous precedent.

AND, those three only exist because there is THE INTERNET. SO.... these families need to sue AL GORE, the INVENTOR OF THE INTERNET..

32 posted on 12/22/2016 6:10:58 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Jimmy The Snake
What if we treat Radical web sites for Terror with beheadings and stuff like it was Kid-Porn?

The problem with that is, WHO decides what is a Radical Web Site for Terror ?

33 posted on 12/22/2016 6:12:30 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

Correction, should read victimized by BLM


34 posted on 12/22/2016 6:13:05 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: UCANSEE2

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


35 posted on 12/22/2016 6:20:47 AM PST by Jimmy The Snake
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To: tekrat

Too bad they can’t sue the idiots in government enabling the carnage.


36 posted on 12/22/2016 6:27:06 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

I don’t care if Facebook disappears tomorrow either, but I do care about liberty.


37 posted on 12/22/2016 6:29:50 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: tekrat

This would have been a lot better if they had sued Islam.


38 posted on 12/22/2016 6:31:18 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: tekrat

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.


39 posted on 12/22/2016 6:53:59 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: tekrat

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.


40 posted on 12/22/2016 6:55:49 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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