Section 230 (Still) Applies to Contract Breach Claim–NJCCC v. McAleer
…for corporate development, Jeremy Fields, testified that it was the company’s policy to retract press releases upon receiving complaints from publishers…. McAleer didn’t make “any specific threat to investigate or…
Reddit Challenges Anthropic’s Scraping to Create Generative AI Models (Guest Blog Post)
…Cal. Supreme Court in Hamidi said “The tort does not encompass, and should not be extended to encompass, an electronic communication that neither damages the recipient computer system nor impairs…
Amazon Isn’t Liable for Merchant’s Display of Bogus Contact Info–Hillman v. Amazon
…she got hundreds of complaints per day about the furniture merchant. Hillman said the flood of complaints prevented her from running her business and disrupted her personal life. Hillman says…
Because the SAD Scheme Disregards Due Process, Errors Inevitably Ensue–Modlily v. Funlingo
…engaging in judge-shopping. Case Citation: Hong Kong Yu’En E-Commerce Co. v. Individuals, Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships and Unincorporated Associations Identified in Schedule “A”, 2025 WL 1413251 (N.D. Ill. May…
A Roundup of Recent Section 230 Decisions Involving Sex Abuse or CSAM
…their users to submit content. The Roommates.com case explicitly addressed this point: if “you don’t encourage [only] illegal content, or design your website to require users to input [only] illegal…
Meta Pixels Case Dismissed by Second Circuit–Solomon v. Triller
This ruling combines three common blog topics: (1) the VPPA 🙄, which always gets an eyeroll emoji because so many VPPA cases are obviously meritless, (2) the Meta Pixel cases,…
More Account Termination Cases Fail in Court
The account termination lawsuits keep coming, so I’ll keep blogging them. Housman v. Meta Platforms, Inc., 2025 WL 1249157 (D. Nev. April 29, 2025) This is a pro se/in pro…
WeChat Defeats Account Termination Lawsuit–Sun v. WeChat
…Liable for Account Termination–Young v. Facebook Online Game Network Isn’t Company Town–Estavillo v. Sony Third Circuit Says Google Isn’t State Actor–Jayne v. Google Founders Ask.com Not Liable for Search Results…
Rounding Up Some Recent Copyright Decisions
…and their agents issued infringement complaints on dozens of such listings. In response to these complaints, however, the evidence shows that Defendants promptly took down nearly all of the infringing…
Facebook Defeats Armslist’s Account Termination Lawsuit–Armslist v. Facebook
In 2020, Facebook and Instagram terminated various Armslist-related accounts, and Facebook prevented users from sending the URL armslist.com in private messages. Armslist claims these actions were in response to government…