The complementary lawsuits claim that the massacre in 2022 was made possible by tech giants, a local gun shop, and the gunman’s parents.

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.

  • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago
    • RMA Armament is named for providing the body armor Gendron wore during the shooting.

    No he bought it.

    • Vintage Firearms of Endicott, New York, is singled out for selling the shooter the weapon used in the attack.

    Not their issue he passed the background check.

    • The lawsuit claims Mean LLC manufactured an easily removable gun lock, offering a way to circumvent New York laws prohibiting assault weapons and large-capacity magazines.

    Any knob w/ a dremel can make a gun full auto, let alone defeating a mag lock. And he broke NY law doing this.

    • YouTube, named with parent companies Alphabet Inc. and Google, is accused of contributing to the gunman’s radicalization and helping him acquire information to plan the attack.

    This is just absurd.

    My guess is they are hoping for settlements vs going to trial where they lose.

    • vertigo3pc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Only responding to the last point, but if they can prove that Google somehow curated his content to push him towards fringe, terroristic websites, they could be found liable as a civil suit.

      • dx1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        Any basic “you may like this” algorithm can produce those results.