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Section 230 Preempts Two More Harassment Lawsuits

Eric Goldman

Recapping a couple of doomed-from-inception lawsuits. Benedict v. Google LLC , 2024 WL 3427161 (D. Ariz. July 16, 2024) Lance Benedict is a musician. Someone attacked him on the heavy metal website “All That Shreds” (apparently gone now), posting allegedly doctored images and defamatory statements. Those items got indexed in Google and appeared in Benedict’s vanity searches.

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US court jails Marine for performing Nazi salute during 2021 Capitol attack–Jurist.org

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Bekim Bruka | JURIST Staff, US The US District Court for the District of Columbia sentenced a former Marine Tyler Dykes on Friday to nearly five years in prison for assaulting police officers during the January 6 Capitol attack. On top of the imprisonment, Dykes received another 36 months of supervised release and a $22,000 fine. Prosecutors from the federal government recommended a prison term of five years and three months for Dykes, emphasizing his role in instigating significant violence ins