Google Defeats Suit Over YouTuber Who Allegedly Groomed Minors

Google LLC‘s YouTube won a dismissal of a lawsuit that claimed the platform should be held liable for sharing profits with a popular YouTuber who allegedly groomed and sexually abused minors.

Judge Vince Chhabria of the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday said that the legal shield for internet companies—known as Section 230—blocked the lawsuit. The complaint was brought by an anonymous alleged sex trafficking victim of James Jackson, a YouTuber whose channel Onision has over two million subscribers.

The lawsuit attempts to hold YouTube liable as a publisher “because it provided a platform ...