Appellate Judge Pens Scathing Critique of Section 230 Shield

A group of judges for the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said the court should have revisited a case against Snap Inc. in order to pare down the scope of the tech industry’s legal shield known as Section 230.

The conservative-leaning appeals court voted by a one judge margin to deny full review of a lower court’s decision that Snap was immune from claims that its popular social media app, Snapchat, let a high school teacher send sexual explicit material to a 15-year-old student. A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit this summer upheld a ruling that ...