Twitter Is Not Legally Responsible For The Rise of ISIS, Rules California District Court (theverge.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A lawsuit accusing Twitter of providing material support to ISIS has been dismissed by a California District Court. First filed in January, the lawsuit argued ISIS's persistent presence on Twitter constituted material support for the terror group, and sought to hold Twitter responsible for an ISIS-linked attack on that basis. Filed by the family of an American contractor named Lloyd Fields, the lawsuit sought damages from an ISIS-linked attack in Jordan that claimed Fields' life. The plaintiff's initial complaint alleged widespread fundraising and recruitment through the platform, attributing 30,000 foreign actors recruited through ISIS Twitter accounts in 2015 alone. The judge assigned to the case was ultimately not swayed by that reasoning, finding that the plaintiffs had not offered a convincing argument for holding Twitter liable. The plaintiff will have the chance to submit a modified version of the complaint within 20 days of the order, the second such modification ordered by the judge. The report adds: "Apart from the private nature of Direct Messaging, plaintiffs identify no other way in which their Direct Messaging theory seeks to treat Twitter as anything other than a publisher of information provided by another information content provider," the ruling reads. At the same time, even the private nature of Twitter's Direct Messaging feature "does not remove the transmission of such messages from the scope of publishing activity under section 230(c)(1)."

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Re:Obama is responsible

[Required Snark]

It makes no difference what your analysis is if you don't even mention Bush. Remember him? The guy who invaded the wrong country? President My Pet Goat, for want of a better term.

I know that you have a mental block against facts and objective reality, so here are some important real world events you skipped over:

1) Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks, but Bush and his cronies lied their teeth out and whipped up a frenzy to invade.

2)There were no WMDs, except fragments left over from the Iraq/Iran war. Another deliberate lie to make the war seem reasonable. Don't forget that during the Iran/Iraq war the US was sponsoring Saddam Hussein and Cheney was a big Saddam fan.

3) Bush the Idiot and his incompetent crew did no planning for post invasion Iraq. And by no planning I mean absolutely nothing. They waited until after the fall of Hussein to recruit anyone to administer the country. Many were picked because they worked on the Bush campaign and were Republican loyalists with no international experience. A large number had to apply for passports because they had never left the US in their lives. To give an idea of how they functioned, just think of the $12 billion cash (in $100 bills) that was sent to Iraq and just vanished. To this day no one knows what happened to it.

4) The invasion happened in 2003 and Obama took office in January 2009. There were over six years of massive incompetence overseen by the Bush administration and Obama inherited the entire mess. You would have to go back the end of WW2 in Europe or Japan to find anything nearly as bad. You talk as if it all just magically appeared on January 20 2009 when Obama took the oath of office. WTF?

It's like describing Eastern Europe after WW2 and ignoring Germany's invasion, or the takeover of China by Mao's Communists and ignoring the Japanese empire. Your description is unconnected with historical reality. You're worse then the fools who claim the world is only 6000 years old. You were alive when this happened. Just like Bush, you have no excuse.