Zuckerberg's response -
Posted on 06/27/2021 5:52:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Texas Supreme Court ruled that Facebook could be held liable if sex traffickers use the platform to prey on children, arguing the social media website isn’t a “lawless no-man’s-land.”
The ruling was made following three Houston-area lawsuits involving teenage trafficking victims who alleged that they met their abusers through Facebook’s messaging service. Prosecutors also said that Facebook was negligent by not doing more to block sex traffickers from using the site.
“We do not understand Section 230 to ‘create a lawless no-man’s-land on the Internet’ in which states are powerless to impose liability on websites that knowingly or intentionally participate in the evil of online human trafficking,” the Supreme Court’s majority wrote.
Facebook has contended that it’s protected under Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act—a law that has been frequently criticized by Republicans, including former President Donald Trump. Critics have said that the rule, which shields online platforms from liability regarding third-party content, has allowed Facebook, Twitter, Google, and others to ban conservative viewpoints while unfairly allowing extreme left-wing viewpoints to proliferate.
“Holding internet platforms accountable for words or actions of their users is one thing, and the federal precedent uniformly dictates that section 230 does not allow it,” the state Supreme Court court ruled (pdf) on June 25. “Holding internet platforms accountable for their own misdeeds is quite another thing. This is particularly the case for human trafficking.”
In a statement, a Facebook spokesperson told Fox Business that the California-based firm is considering the “next steps” following the court’s decision.
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Cue Zuckerbarf filling his drawers...
Uber-DEEP Pockets!!! Look outside the window, you may see dressed up lawyers with noses uplifted.
Yes. They smell the money, all the way across the land!
Biden/Obama’s DOJ to the rescue in 5, ... 4, ..., 3, ...
ROFLMAO. I hope Facebook is dismembered.
Exactly. I am heavily involved in Internet hosting and Section 230 DOES NOT absolve a company from human trafficking laws. In fact, it clearly states the Internet hosting companies are responsible for actions to prevent human trafficking, but the Obama admin and the Trump admin, via Barr, did nothing to stop Twitter and Facebook from hosting human trafficking pages.
Man, Texas is kicking ass this week! Awesome!
Why does anyone have a FB account?
Why does anyone have tattoos?
Why does anyone have credit card debt?
I deleted my account November 4th . I don’t miss it .
Facebook
AKA
#SexSlaves-R-Us
I hope he gets sued out of
every penny he has .
This is why Cragislist stopped doing personal ads. Even a low level pimp can be charged with human trafficking.
Every Covid victim family should sue them for hiding therapeutics and where the virus originated.
Because people have old high-school friends, cousins, adult kids, and grandkids they want to keep track of. Nobody has a dog-eared notebook with names and phone numbers on them anymore.
Good!
Apparently people have a FB account to traffic in sex. Everything else FB offers can be done pretty easily through other means.
I didn’t delete but I never got back on. I previously averaged 4 to 6 hrs a day. Went cold turkey
The Biden administration should be sued for sex trafficking illegal children across the border and handing them out as part favors to the elite techos and politicians.
Yup, Mark is at the very least, puckered up.
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