YouTube Shuns Fault for Crypto Scam in Dismissal Bid (2)

YouTube said it’s not at fault for cryptocurrency scammers using its platform, in moving Monday to dismiss a lawsuit by Ripple Labs Inc.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act “categorically bars” such suits, the Alphabet Inc.'s Google unit said in a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

The motion shows how video-sharing platforms rely on a section of the 1996 law stating that computer services shouldn’t be treated as the publisher or speaker of other providers’ content.

A representative for Ripple didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. A YouTube spokesperson said, ...