The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that federal law does not grant Facebook immunity against lawsuits for users who use its platform to lure minors into sex trafficking.
Three plaintiffs filed separate suits against Facebook alleging that they became victims of sex trafficking after meeting their abusers through Facebook or Instagram, which Facebook owns. In addition to several negligence claims, the plaintiffs asserted claims under a Texas statute that allows civil lawsuits “against those who intentionally or knowingly benefit from participation in a sex-trafficking venture.”
Facebook moved to dismiss all claims against it contending that they were barred by section 230 of the “Communications Decency Act,” which protects interactive computer service providers such as Facebook from being held liable for any information provided by its users.
However, the Texas Supreme Court denied Facebook’s motion saying that section 230 does not “create a lawless no-man’s-land on the Internet.” The court further explained that section 230 protects internet platforms from being held accountable for their users’ words or actions, but “[h]olding internet platforms accountable for their own misdeeds is quite another thing.” Thus, the court held that section 230 did not bar the plaintiffs’ statutory claims against Facebook.
More discussion with Viva Frei and Barnes Law.
Evidently Fakebook was relying on the “Communications In-Decency Act”…
full decision here:
https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1452449/200434.pdf
We do not understand section 230 to “create a lawless no-man’s-land on the Internet” in
which states are powerless to impose liability on websites that knowingly or intentionally
participate in the evil of online human trafficking.
Holding internet platforms accountable for their own misdeeds is quite
another thing. This is particularly the case for human trafficking. Congress recently amended
section 230 to indicate that civil liability may be imposed on websites that violate state and federal
human-trafficking laws.
In short, Zuckerberg & Fakebook Co. can’t play “pimp facilitator” for under age kids; untrammeled by any consequence.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Heres the VivaBarnes link…
https://youtu.be/vlxBg8UQvMQ
Gee, I hate the thought of Zuck getting sued.
I mean, he seems like such an upfront, personable fellow.
Right?
Most punchable CEO … ever.
Kenji:
His “long alien [punchable] face” makes a cameo appearance in my song KilJoy.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pc6smw4qudonnw1/KillJoy.WAV?dl=0
Totally unrelated. Didja hear about this?
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/justin-trudeau-demands-pope-francis-fly-to-canada-and-apologize/
I’m going to ask … again … that the Canadian government deploy ground penetrating radar to every reservation and count the number of unmarked graves of native children. And then … create a special investigators office to find all the missing native women.
I want a full count of every body buried on native reservations.
But the missing women are buried in the back 40. It’s only when you commit genocide that you plant them front and centre. Note that these schools were mostly, if not totally, located on reserves and the grave diggers would likely have been Indian and the largest number of kids would have been from that reserve. Some secret.
Again, scar, thanks for the info. I did not know that the schools were mostly on the reservations. But I know a psy-op when I see one.
Recent slogans encountered:
– bring our children home
– All Children Matter
I’ve been pointing out repeatedly on social media that GPR cannot detect graves or bodies; it doesn’t have the resolution. All it can do is determine that the soil isn’t even some distance below the surface. Thus, all claims of graves or bodies being found are outright lies until such time as excavations are performed and human remains are found.
Let the exhuming begin!
With cameras rolling so we all get the “exciting” Geraldo opens an empty safe moment all over again.
They’ll say: “Well … we found 12 bodies. That’s still a ‘genocide’! Albeit on a smaller scale”
Does sex trafficking violate Facebook’s infamous community standards?
Once they started policing opinions and content doesn’t it imply that content they don’t remove is acceptable to them?
Exactly.
Sex trafficking is acceptable to Facebook so they won’t stop that despite pretending to do so.
But, what are the unintended consequences of demanding they be more censorious?
Bingo. They assume liability for what is posted once they take on the role of censors.
No, they don’t. That is literally what S.230 prevents.
You know, S.230 isn’t some kind of secret knowledge. It’s not written in invisible ink on the back of the Declaration of Independence. It’s freely available online and in any decent law library. Anyone can go look it up and read exactly what it says.
STan
100% Correct.
If there is one entity on this planet I would love to see LITERALLY CRUCIFIED…??
FASCIST BOOK would be it by a landslide
So great to see Texas still be Texas.
What a shame that Alberta has near turned into a BC without the coastline. Kenney is the provincial version of O’Toole, proving what backstabbing scumbags these CINO’s really are.
So … the court said: “seduction into sex slavery may break little girls hymens … but words will never hurt them”
Sounds right to me. Everything the court needed to know, they learned in Kindergarten
“Bingo. They assume liability for what is posted once they take on the role of censors.”-Roger
This is demonstrated by the activities they do not censor.
Antifa groups demonstrating methods to evade police capture as well as attack and defense tactics using knives, shields, and Molotov cocktails.
Allowing disinformation by Antifa to whip up mobs to attack police and target political adversaries.
Allowing false narratives to stay up while censoring opposing viewpoints on things like Ivermectin for political reasons not medical reasons.
Censoring the creator of the Vaccine for Covid when he urges caution about increased danger to children from the vaccine in excess of the danger from Covid itself.
They also allow Farrakhan to support and speak antisemitism, The PLO, Hamas and Iran to call for the deaths of Americans and Gays worldwide.
They receive money from China and republish their propaganda wholesale. While censoring the actions in Hong Kong including removing all of the judges and replacing them with communist commissioners, closing all independent newspapers, starting to round up students and advocates for freedom.
They censor google searches on Tiananmen square, tank man, massacre in china.
They suppress stories about Uighurs in concentration camps, forced sterilization, re-education camps.
I posted this article on human hair being seized on facebook. It was taken down by facebook censors.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/us-issues-warning-companies-importing-xinjiang-china/story?id=71559507
The list of the evil they participate in is endless.
Farcebook forfeited it’s protection once it began targeted censorship. It’s own action was a de facto confirmation that it has full control of the content on its site.
I fully agree MikeT, ….BUT, farcebook has a lot of MONEY, it’ll be interesting to see this thing unfold. Ultimately, I would bet (unfortunately) their money wins over any negative attacks on them. Too big to fail, cuz they can buy off politicians and judges, and all the other movers and shakers. The Gates and Zucks, n’ Dorsey’s get to run the planet with their Davos buddies. The rest of us get to eat shit and like it.