Big Tech's heatshield burns up in landmark court ruling
Breaking news: A US court has ruled Section 230 cannot protect TikTok after it recommended a deadly game that hanged a little girl...
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This little girl, Nylah Anderson, hanged herself after TikTok’s algos decided to recommend her a deadly game called the Blackout Challenge. She was 10.
Several children had already died, and TikTok was well aware it was happening, but it chose to do nothing about it.
Nylah’s mother Tawainna sued, sending Bytedance’s video giant scuttling behind the anachronistic US law called Section 230.
The law states: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”
It means Big Tech has been free to publish anything and everything it wants without penalty, because it’s considered a platform and not a publisher.
Even though TikTok knowingly encouraged children “to choke themselves with belts, purse strings, or anything similar until passing o…
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