Discord and Meta are being sued as defective products, not as publishers
The complaint says out loud what most cases like it only imply. It exists, its authors write, to challenge how Discord and Meta misuse “section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as a shield against accountability”.
That single sentence explains the whole filing.
A California woman, suing as Jane Doe, filed in San Francisco Superior Court on 16 April. The case was first reported by Business Insider. The 57-page complaint names Discord and Meta and runs to six causes of action.
Not one of them is defamation, or publication, or anything resembling a claim about content.
Why the causes of action matter more than the headline
Section 230 protects platforms from liability for what their users post. For twenty years that has ended most cases of this kind before they started.
So the complaint does not sue over what the abusers posted. It sues over how the companies built...
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