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1 week ago | 
jdsupra.com | Lawrence Gallick |Anthony Ramirez |Aaron Rubin
OHIO SOCIAL MEDIA LAW STRUCK DOWNOn April 16, 2025, a federal judge in Ohio ended the state’s ambitious plan to severely limit social media access for minors. The court permanently blocked Ohio’s Attorney General from enforcing the Parental Notification by Social Media Operators Act, effectively shelving the law.
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1 month ago | 
jdsupra.com | Evan Minsberg |Malika Moore |Aaron Rubin
Part II – User-Generated Content and In-Game Payment ModelsAs in-game economies evolve, the complexity surrounding virtual goods and services, content creation, and payment structures deepens.
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lexology.com | Lawrence Gallick |Anthony Ramirez |Aaron Rubin
Looks like WhatsApp just leveled up—whether it wanted to or not. Meta’s messaging giant has officially been crowned a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), which basically means, “Congrats, you’re now under extra scrutiny!” What does it take for an online platform or search engine to become a VLOP? Just a casual 45 million users—a threshold the European Commission says WhatsApp crossed last year.
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Meta Successfully Asserts Section 230 ImmunityA three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a case that sought to hold Facebook parent company Meta liable for the 2015 mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC. The plaintiffs alleged that Facebook’s algorithm promoted white supremacist content and suggested extremist groups to drive engagement, which radicalized the killer.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Lawrence Gallick |Anthony Ramirez |Aaron Rubin
TIKTOK’S WILD RIDEIn a rare unanimous decision, on January 17, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law that bans TikTok in the United States on national security grounds so long as it has its current ownership structure. TikTok chose to make the app go dark in the United States before the law’s deadline, which spurred a panic among users (with many protesting on the belief that their First Amendment rights were being violated), though the app was back online within fourteen hours.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Aaron Rubin
CHARACTER.AI SUED IN TWO STATESCharacter Technologies has been hit with two lawsuits, including a wrongful death suit (among other claims), in less than two months over its popular Character.ai chatbot. The first was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (Garcia v. Character Technologies Inc.) by the mother of a Florida teenager who tragically committed suicide after the chatbot allegedly encouraged the child to do so.
