Eric Goldman
MARCH 11, 2025
Its not mentioned here, but he later got the charges dropped and filed a civil-rights lawsuit against multiple government officials.) A Google Scholar search for 2258B turns up just two prior lawsuits (both fruitless) against AT&T in 2013 and Meta and Yahoo in 2020. true CSAM) can mean messy, expensive FOSTA lawsuits.
Eric Goldman
JANUARY 9, 2025
9) Supreme Court Tamps Down on Jawboning and Government Social Media Lawsuits. If any of those lawsuits succeed, they pose a potential existential threat to the entire industry. Finally, my Twitter account is still active, but I haven’t posted there in many months. I’ve instead made Bluesky my primary social media home.
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Eric Goldman
APRIL 10, 2025
All of the named Senators deserve condemnation for their censorial mindset (and the named individuals remaining in the Senate have learned nothing from this and the other lawsuits over their jawboning). Google Facebook Defeats Jawboning Lawsuit Over COVID Misinformation RemovalRogalinski v. Vullo s level of censorial threats.
Eric Goldman
APRIL 3, 2025
Note: This blog didn’t have any comment function from 2006 to 2013. I assume Section 230 will be long-gone by then, so every lawsuit over UGC will become a protracted First Amendment lawsuit. Rather than navigate that gauntlet, I’ll turn off comments entirely. Within 10 years, that outcome seems inevitable.
Eric Goldman
MAY 12, 2023
This lawsuit relates to an episode of the TV show Evil Lives Here called “I Invited Him In,” which discusses an NY serial killer named Nathaniel White. 2013 WL 664231 (E.D. 2013); O’Kroley v. Among other defendants, he sued Microsoft for Bing search results linking to the episode. 2012); Nieman v. Versuslaw, Inc.,
Eric Goldman
JANUARY 18, 2024
Thousands of SAD Scheme lawsuits have been filed because the TROs take the online merchant off the marketplace entirely and usually extract some cash. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. If so, as I predicted in 2019 , the UK Online Safety Act will accelerate the end of Web 2.0 TikTok bans.
The Barrister
MARCH 18, 2024
6] In these dynamic conditions, notable recent news includes: EA Sports is releasing its popular “College Football 25” video game in Summer 2024 – the first release since 2013. The lawsuit is an antitrust claim challenging the NCAA’s rules against recruiting inducements. [8] More than 10,000 of the 1,390 FBS players have agreed. [7]
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