Section 230

  • EPIC Tells Court that Privacy Protections Don’t Violate the First Amendment

    December 18, 2024

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

    • Privacy Laws

    • Section 230

    • Updates

  • Design-Based Lawsuits Against Platform Companies Reveal Fault Lines in Courts’ Section 230 Interpretations

    November 1, 2024

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Section 230

    • Analysis

  • In Anderson v. TikTok, the Third Circuit Applies Questionable First Amendment Reasoning to Arrive at the Correct Section 230 Outcome

    October 10, 2024

    The opinion correctly held that Section 230 did not bar the claims to the extent that they alleged TikTok’s own algorithmic design caused the tragic circumstances, but it arrived at its decision through a questionable First Amendment analysis instead of careful Section 230 reasoning. TikTok is now asking the entire Third Circuit to re-hear the case and overturn the initial ruling.

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Section 230

    • The First Amendment

    • Analysis

  • Ninth Circuit Recognizes Section 230 Not a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card for Tech Companies That Allegedly Lie to Users

    August 22, 2024

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Section 230

    • Updates

  • Section 230 & Platform Accountability

    July 22, 2024

    • Section 230

  • Doe v. Grindr

    May 20, 2024

    Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act prohibits a lawsuit against a dating app alleging that the app was designed in a dangerous way because it repeatedly matched a high schooler with adults who sexually abused him.

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Section 230

    • Social Media Privacy

    • Amicus Briefs

  • McCarthy v. Amazon

    December 12, 2023

    Whether Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, can be sued under product liability for selling sodium nitrite to minors who used the compound to commit suicide.

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Commercial AI Use

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Section 230

    • Amicus Briefs

  • In re: Casino-Style Games Litigation

    November 3, 2023

    Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which prohibits treating internet companies as the speakers of third-party information, prevents lawsuits against internet companies who sell illegal products provided by third parties on their online marketplaces.

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Section 230

    • Amicus Briefs

  • Bride et al. v. Yolo Technologies, Inc.

    August 21, 2023

    Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act prohibits (1) misrepresentation claims against internet companies who, after claiming in their terms of service that they would ban and reveal the identities of users who cyberbullied others, then refused to do so, and (2) products liability claims against the same defendants for designing an allegedly unsafe messaging product that allowed users to send anonymous, abusive messages to teens.

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Section 230

    • Amicus Briefs

  • Gonzalez v. Google

    December 8, 2022

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Section 230

    • Amicus Briefs