Civil Litigation
Sep. 8, 2021
MindGeek must face claims it violated trafficking, porn laws
U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney of the Central District of California ruled that Section 230 only protects service providers when victims try to label them as publishers of information provided by a different party.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act doesn't shield the pornography behemoth MindGeek from claims that it violated federal sex trafficking and child pornography laws, a federal judge has ruled.
The law generally prohibits internet companies from being sued for content posted to their platforms. But on Friday U.S. District Judge of the Central Distric...
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