Twitter’s blocking of the Post articles ignited new calls from Republicans to revise or revoke Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which gives Internet companies latitude to remove content that violates their policies while shielding them from legal liability. — AFP
LOS ANGELES: A Delaware computer repair shop owner sued Twitter, alleging the social network defamed him by effectively labeling him a “hacker” after his business was cited as the source for info obtained from a laptop allegedly owned by Hunter Biden that served as the basis for several New York Post articles published in October.
In the lawsuit, John Paul Mac Isaac said he was forced to shut down the Mac Shop, his computer repair business in Wilmington, Delaware, after Twitter said the NY Post stories violated its “hacked materials” policy and initially disallowed users from sharing links to them. The Rupert Murdoch-owned paper claimed the material for its Hunter Biden exposes was supplied by Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who allegedly obtained it from a MacBook Pro that had been abandoned in Mac Isaac’s shop.
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