twitter periscopeWhen someone makes a comment on social media that results in something bad happening to someone else, like a death, or maybe ruining someone’s business and life, who’s fault is it? Most of us would probably think it’s the person who made the comment who is to blame, not the social media platform, right?

However there are some who believe that social media websites should be accountable, but it seems that the legal system does not agree. A report from The Wall Street Journal has revealed that US District Judge William H. Orrick of San Francisco has recently dismissed a lawsuit against Twitter, basically claiming that Twitter cannot be held liable for tweets made by ISIS, or that it was pseudo-responsible for an attack that happened in Jordan last November.

According to the Associated Press, “The judge agreed with Twitter that the company cannot be held liable because it wasn’t the speaker of Isis’s hateful rhetoric. Federal law protects service providers that merely offer platforms for speech, without creating the speech itself.” They also quoted Judge Orrick as saying, “As horrific as these deaths were … Twitter cannot be treated as a publisher or speaker of Isis’s hateful rhetoric and is not liable under the facts alleged.”

That being said, there are plenty of such groups that exist on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms, but to be fair, platforms such as Twitter have been actively taking them down.

Filed in Web. Read more about and .

Discover more from Ubergizmo

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading