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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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[-] PBCrisps@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Can't see how the lawsuit on the tech giants gets passed Section 230, which is unfortunate as Spez and the people who run Youtube willfully helped enable and encourage this shooter.

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[-] spacedance@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago

Yup, definitely the websites fault. Nothing more to it.

[-] BrownianMotion@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

FTFY.

"YouTube, Reddit and a body armour manufacturer were among the businesses that helped enable the gunman who killed 10 ~~Black~~ people in an ~~racist~~ attack at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket, according to a pair of lawsuits announced Wednesday.

[-] FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

anyone blaming guns here are just as bad as blaming youtube or reddit.

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