A lawsuit alleging that the stranger video chatting website Omegle.com LLC matched a girl with a sex predator who abused her can advance to the evidence-gathering discovery phase in litigation against the platform, an Oregon federal judge ruled Tuesday.
The ruling is a rare legal victory for plaintiffs in the face of a historically bulletproof liability shield provided by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provides broad immunity to online platforms over lawsuits based on content created by users.
Plaintiffs seeking to hold online platforms accountable for crimes committed by their users have been fighting for years to ...
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