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Poyner Spruill LLP

Section 230 Shields Twitter from Congregational Claims

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A federal court has ruled that 47 U.S.C. “Section 230” of the Communications Decency Act shields Twitter from claims it aided and abetted defamation. Brikman v. Twitter, Inc., 2020 WL 5594637 (E.D.N.Y., September 17, 2020)...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Trump vs. Twitter: The Feud Over Section 230 and Online Censorship

As part of Spilman's Decoded: Technology Law Insights e-newsletter, Spilman members Joseph Schaeffer and Nick Mooney discuss Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and how it plays into President Trump's recent...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

The Coming Border Wars: U.S. Court Decision Refusing to Enforce Canadian Court Order Highlights the Growing Balkanization of the...

Does a search engine operator have to delist websites hosting, without authorization, your trade secret materials or other intellectual property? The answer may depend on where you sue—just ask Google. The U.S. District Court...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

GAME OF (STICKS &) STONES – Prior Restraint & Online Defamation

In previous posts, we have explored several aspects of internet defamation – including suing anonymous internet and twitter users and the protections afforded to internet users and providers for re-publishing content under...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Status Updates: Appeals court upholds anti-cyberbullying law; better marketing through neural networks; restaurant owner turns the...

Cruel intentions. Laws seeking to regulate speech on the Internet must be narrowly drafted to avoid running afoul of the First Amendment, and limiting such a law’s applicability to intentional attempts to cause damage usually...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Sixth Circuit Reinforces CDA Immunity – Reverses Lower Court in Jones v. Dirty World

On June 16th, 2014, the Sixth Circuit reversed the lower court’s holding that the gossip site, TheDirty.com, was responsible for its users’ defamatory posts and could not rely on immunity under CDA Section 230. The appeals...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

#Libel and the Lulu App

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You can rate your favorite pizza place online. Why not your ex-boyfriend? That’s the idea, at least, behind Lulu. The popular app allows women, verified through their Facebook profiles, to rate men using pre-written...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

TheDirty.com Goes to Trial

In 2012, we reported on a pair of district court decisions that, based on similar facts, split on whether defendant TheDirty.com, a gossip website, qualified for immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act...more

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