Facebook Walks Into Legal Trap After Claiming To Be 'Publisher' In Laura
Loomer Lawsuit

Fri, 09/20/2019 - 18:45

Facebook may have just stepped on a legal landmine amid an ongoing
battle with journalist Laura Loomer - after the Silicon Valley giant
claimed in a motion to dismiss Loomer's lawsuit that it can bar the
political activist under their rights as a publisher, according to RT.

Notably, Facebook has long defined itself as a tech company which simply
provides a platform for users' free speech - maintaining that they're a
neutral party which is protected from legal repercussions.

"Under well-established law, neither Facebook nor any other publisher
can be liable for failing to publish someone else's message," reads the
company's motion to dismiss Loomer's defamation lawsuit - adding that
terms like "dangerous" or "promoting hate" cannot be factually verified,
and are therefore protected opinions for a publisher according to the
report. That said, the company claims it never applied either term to
Loomer despite banning her under their "dangerous individuals" policy.

The company may have just stepped on a landmine, however. As RT notes:

Defining itself as a publisher opens Facebook up to lawsuits for
defamation and other liability for the content users publish, something
they were previously immunized against. All the lies, personal attacks,
and smears launched by users going forward can now be laid at Facebook's
feet. That's a Pandora's box they might not want to open, legal analyst
and radio host Lionel told RT.

Platforms like Twitter, Google, and - until now, apparently -
Facebook are protected from the legal consequences of their users'
speech by section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Facebook even
makes reference to section 230 later in its motion, suggesting that it
is trying to have its cake and eat it too.

Lionel points out that Facebook could go back to life as a platform,
if it was willing to sacrifice its usefulness to those in power by
allowing some political speech to reach users and blocking the rest. -RT

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...loomer-lawsuit

In Home Guy writes:

Facebook Walks Into Legal Trap After Claiming To Be 'Publisher' In Laura
Loomer Lawsuit

Fri, 09/20/2019 - 18:45

Facebook may have just stepped on a legal landmine amid an ongoing
battle with journalist Laura Loomer - after the Silicon Valley giant
claimed in a motion to dismiss Loomer's lawsuit that it can bar the
political activist under their rights as a publisher, according to RT.

You and Laura Loonatic quoting _RUSSIA TODAY_, an acknowledged
Putin mouthpiece, as a source?

Hahahahaahhahahh

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danny burstein wrote:

You and Laura Loonatic quoting _RUSSIA TODAY_, an acknowledged
Putin mouthpiece, as a source?

Facts are still facts regardless who has the courage to report them you
liberal / leftist piece of trash (and obvious fecebook lover).

Hahahahaahhahahh

Says the laughing mindless monkey.