Social Networking Site Isn’t Liable for User’s Overdose of Drugs He Bought Via the Site–Dyroff v. Ultimate Software
http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2017/12/social-networking-site-isnt-liable-for-users-overdose-of-drugs-he-bought-via-the-site-dyroff-v-ultimate-software.htm [blog.ericgoldman.org]
2017-12-07 19:25
This opinion is a contender for the most interesting Section 230 ruling of 2017. It deals with the troubling situation of user-to-user online drug sales; it discusses the thorny language of what it means to “develop in part” content; it decisively rejects the latest anti-Section 230 theory that data mining and targeted content recommendations somehow foreclose the immunity; it emphatically rejects a “failure to warn” workaround to Section 230; and the judge embraces Internet exceptionalism. My apologies for the length of this blog post, but there is a lot to unpack in this opinion. If you’re a Section 230 enthusiast, this case deserves your careful attention.