Terminated User Loses Lawsuit Against Facebook–Hunt v. Meta
…removal failed lawsuit. Case Citation: Hunt v. Meta Platforms, Inc., 2025 WL 2902968 (S.D. Tex. Oct. 13, 2025) Selected Posts About State Action Claims Section 230 (Still) Applies to Contract…
Court Greenlights Politician’s Censorship of Social Media Comments–Fox v. Faison
…v. Tabak Supreme Court Addresses When Government Employees’ Social Media Accounts are State Action (Lindke & Garnier) Politician-Operated Social Media Accounts Raise Many Thorny Legal Issues University-Operated Twitter Account is…
University of Wisconsin-Madison Censored Animal-Rights Activist on Instagram and Facebook–Krasno v. UWM
…Supreme Court Addresses When Government Employees’ Social Media Accounts are State Action (Lindke & Garnier) Politician-Operated Social Media Accounts Raise Many Thorny Legal Issues University-Operated Twitter Account is a Limited…
Section 230 (Still) Applies to Contract Breach Claim–NJCCC v. McAleer
…Internet Services Isn’t Actionable–AAPS v. Schiff Facebook Isn’t a Constructive Public Trust–Cameron Atkinson v. Facebook Section 230 Ends Demonetized YouTuber’s Lawsuit–Lewis v. Google Selected Posts About State Action Claims More…
School Board Official Censored Constituent by Blocking Access to Their Social Media Account–Garnier v. O’Connor-Ratcliff
…legal standard in the parallel case Lindke v. Freed and remanded this case for reconsideration. On remand, the Ninth Circuit holds that O’Connor-Ratcliff’s social media use was state action. Zane…
More Account Termination Cases Fail in Court
…political cartoons. 📈 Selected Posts About State Action Claims WeChat Defeats Account Termination Lawsuit–Sun v. WeChat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is Breaking Internet Law Faster Than I Can Blog It…
WeChat Defeats Account Termination Lawsuit–Sun v. WeChat
…that’s true here: Plaintiff does not allege any state action that would sustain a § 1983 claim. Nor has Plaintiff provided factual allegations that could support an inference that there…
Section 230 Protects Newspaper’s Removal of User Comments–Affleck v. Harvard Crimson
…under any of these tests…..by operating its YouTube service for the public to post videos, Google is not performing a traditional, exclusive state action and should not be considered a…
2024 Internet Law Year-in-Review
…account becomes state action. The court’s holding ensures that most social media accounts operated by government employees will not qualify as state action, even if the accountholder is loudly boasting…
The “Winning Isn’t Normal” Copyright Enforcement Campaign Is More “Abusive” Than “Winning”–Bell v. Kiffin
…State Action? Separate from the fair use discussion, the court ruminated about whether Kiffin tweeted on his own behalf or as a state employee, which matters because qualified immunity might…