Facebook, Twitter, Google sued by Orlando shooting victims' families

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Facebook, Twitter, Google sued by Orlando shooting victims' families

Facebook, Google and Twitter are being sued by the families of three victims slain in the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub for allegedly providing "material support" to the Islamic State.

The lawsuit . . . was filed Monday in federal court . . . on behalf of the families of Tevin Crosby, Javier Jorge-Reyes and Juan Ramon Guerrero.

The lawsuit is the latest to target popular Internet services for making it too easy for the Islamic State to spread its message. . . .

The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, uses popular Internet services such as Facebook, Twitter and Google's YouTube to spread propaganda, to attract and train new recruits, to celebrate terrorist attacks and publicize executions.

Earlier this month, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter said they would share a database of terror images and videos to more quickly remove terrorism content.

I haven't really analyzed the claims but something tells this will prove to be a very difficult case for the plaintiffs. In the meantime,

[Speaker to Animals]

I think they might have a case, especially in the case of Twitter, who is somehow able to censor and ban conservative voices without fail, but can't seem to ban jihadi accounts.

[TheReal_ND]

Dude it's voluntary. They have no case the users signed the contract.