YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead::The complementary lawsuits claim that the massacre in 2022 was made possible by tech giants, a local gun shop, and the gunman’s parents.

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    1 year ago

    This is more akin to if you sold a fatty food in a supermarket and someone died from being overweight.

    Radicalizing someone to do this isn’t a crime. Freedom of speech isn’t absolute but unless someone gives them actual orders it would still be protected.

    Don’t apply UK’s lack of freedom of speech in American courts.

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      1 year ago

      This is more akin to if you sold a fatty food in a supermarket and someone died from being overweight.

      No. It’s actually more akin to someone designing a supermarket that made it near impossible for a fat person to find healthy food and heavily discounted fatty foods and someone died from being overweight.

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        1 year ago

        And that still would be legal.

        Mcdonalds has existed for decades with that model. The only lawsuits against them are usually settled, and about shit where they knowingly lied like about Transfats. You can’t blame Mcdonalds for your unhealthy eating, you can’t blame one supermarket because it doesn’t sell what you think is healthy. So sure, your version is perfectly fine too… and yet is still legal.

        Ever been to a candy store? A chocolate shop? Even Cheescake Factory is really unhealthy in general and still is a major chain? At some point personal responsibility is what it comes down to.

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      This is more akin to if you sold a fatty food in a supermarket and someone died from being overweight

      Do you not remember those two girls who tried to sue McDonald’s for making them fat?

      It prompted a movie and a book…

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        1 year ago

        And how did that case end?

        Hint: Not well You can try to sue anyone for anything. There’s just no guarentee it’ll work, and it didn’t there.

        There are cases that do work, such as about transfats but that is about specifically misleading someone, not supplying something unhealthy. Also that was settled, not fully through the courts.

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          so?

          the case in OP is still going on so we don’t know how it will end yet. I was just pointing out something that already happened cause the metaphor used matched that case. Like, it was funny to mention something like that when it already happened and we know how it played out.

          We don’t know how the case in OP is gonna play out. You can’t predict the future.