U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero ruled that Section 230 shielded Twitter from the families’ claims of participating in child pornography and sex trafficking but allowed them to sue the company for allegedly profiting from the traffickers’ illegal conduct.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday dismissed a suit accusing Twitter of profiting from sex trafficking by allowing a paying customer to post nude photos of two 13-year-old boys. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals relied on a 1996 federal law that shields tech platforms from liability for content posted by others, a law now under review in the Supreme Court.
