Grindr LLC isn’t liable to a New York man whose ex-boyfriend impersonated him on the company’s dating website in order to get others to harass him for sex, the Second Circuit affirmed March 27.
The Communications Decency Act of 1996 shields the company from claims over content posted by a third party, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said in an unpublished summary order.
The decision joins others, including in the Second Circuit, that have read the law to provide an “interactive computer service” with strong protection when it acts as a “publisher” or “speaker” of information ...
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