Dec 21, 2016
Orlando shooting relatives sue social media giants
"A lawyer for the victims' families Keith Altman, of 1800 Law Firm, told BBC Trending:"The tech companies provide material support to ISIS in two regards. "With respect to Orlando particularly, one of the stated intents of ISIS is to radicalise others in order to take action on their behalf, and that's exactly what happened." The Orlando lawsuit is likely to re-focus attention on the Communications Decency Act of 1996, a piece of legislation which is seen as having protected social media companies from similar legal action in the past. Section 230 of the act 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." Critics argue that in effect the clause excuses social media sites like Facebook or YouTube from liability for what their users post on their platforms. Mr Altman told Trending that social media companies had it in their power to do more.
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