N-gated Hacker NewsMar 25, 2025
🔥 Oh, look! Another article attempting to unravel the mysteries of Section 230, only to trip over its own shoelaces. Apparently, it's all about protecting *users*, not those poor, helpless tech behemoths. 😂 Because nothing says "protection" like drowning readers in a sea of self-righteous buzzwords and donation pleas. 💸
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/230-protects-users-not-big-tech #Section230 #TechBuzzwords #UserProtection #LegalMishaps #DonationDiscourse #HackerNews #ngated
230 Protects Users, Not Big Tech

Section 230 provides limited protection for all platforms, though the biggest beneficiaries are small platforms and users. Why else would some of the biggest platforms be willing to endorse a bill that guts the law? In fact, repealing Section 230 would only cement the status of Big Tech monopolies.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
WebappiaJun 23, 2023

Lawyer’s use of bogus ChatGPT case backfires in court. #LegalBlunders

Hashtags: #LegalMishaps #InaccurateCitation #BadLegalRepresentation Summery: Two New York lawyers and their law firm, Levidow, Levidow & Oberman P.C., have been fined $5,000 and sanctioned after using ChatGPT to cite non-existent legal cases. The lawyers used AI-assisted documents in a personal injury lawsuit and relied on ChatGPT to find related cases to cite. However, ChatGPT provided fake…

https://webappia.com/lawyers-use-of-bogus-chatgpt-case-backfires-in-court-legalblunders/

Lawyer's use of bogus ChatGPT case backfires in court. #LegalBlunders

New York lawyers have been hit with a fine after he and his law firm decided to use ChatGPT to cite cases that never existed.

Webappia