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A judge in the U.S. state of Georgia has dismissed a lawsuit against Snapchat Inc. (also known as Snap, Inc.) regarding its eponymous photo and video sharing app. The plaintiffs, who were injured in a two-car crash, claimed that the driver of the other car, in the words of CBS News,
[...] was trying to reach 100 mph on a highway south of Atlanta when her car hit theirs [...]
[...] while [she was] using a Snapchat filter that puts the rate at which a vehicle is traveling over an image.
The judge cited (Wikipedia link added by submitter)
[...] the immunity clause of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which says, “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.”
As reported by WGCL-TV, a CBS affiliate in Atlanta, a motion filed by the company (PDF) asserted that the driver whose car collided with the plaintiffs' car "was not using the Snapchat application at the time of the collision" (quoted from the court filing, with emphasis removed).
Additional coverage:
- CBS Local Media
- Associated Press via WYFF-TV
- Associated Press via Insurance Journal (different AP story)
- WHJL-TV and Associated Press
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Goodbye Snapchat, Hello Snap Inc
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday January 27 2017, @11:10PM
h. 10:30 AM / Lawsuit sent to snapchat
h. 10:35 AM / Lawsuit disappeared
Btw why not sue also the car maker, the cellphone maker, the ISP, the GPS system (both implementation and theory), the guy who gave the driving license, the mom who did not hit him enough in the head when he was young? I mean, why going half retard when you can go full retard?
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(Score: 2) by gidds on Monday January 30 2017, @01:54PM
I heard the driver was chewing gum when the collision occurred. And Wrigleys have very deep pockets…
Let's hope that he was listening to a Justin Bieber song on the radio!
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday February 01 2017, @12:25PM
> Let's hope that he was listening to a Justin Bieber song on the radio!
Then it is a suicide attempt.
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