Here’s an interesting application of Section 230. The California state supreme court has invoked
the federal Section 230 and ruled that Yelp cannot be compelled to take down a
bad review of a business that is suing the author of the post for defamation.
The case is Hassell v. Bird and secondarily Hassell v.Yelp
Electronic Frontier Foundation has a lead story by Sophia
Cope and Miranda Rutherford.
Hassell seems to have tried to involve a “safe harbor”
(like with copyright and DMCA) process for defamation.
The video above (two years old) applies to the trial court opinion
which had originally ordered that Yelp take the material down.
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