A Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Tuesday that the short-form video-sharing app owned by the China-based ByteDance Inc. was protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a law that immunizes online platforms from lawsuits over user-generated content.
The case was part of a recent wave of lawsuits advancing a new legal argument in an attempt to get around the historically impenetrable liability shield. The lawsuit, filed in ...
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