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Title: It's Steve Wozniak's 75th Birthday. Whatever Happened to His YouTube
Lawsuit?
Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/10/19382...
In 2020 a YouTube video used video footage of Steve Wozniak in a scam to
steal bitcoin. "Some people said they lost their life savings," Wozniak tells
CBS News, explaining why he sued YouTube in 2020 - and where his case stands
now: Wozniak's lawsuit against YouTube has been tied up in court now for five
years, stalled by federal legislation known as Section 230. Attorney Brian
Danitz said, "Section 230 is a very broad statute that limits, if not
totally, the ability to bring any kind of case against these social media
platforms." "It says that anything gets posted, they have no liability at
all," said Wozniak. "It's totally absolute." Google responded to our inquiry
about Wozniak's lawsuit with a statement from Jose Casta�eda, of Google
Policy Communications: "We take abuse of our platform seriously and take
action quickly when we detect violations ... we have tools for users to
report channels that are impersonating their likeness or business." [Steve's
wife] Janet Wozniak, however, says YouTube did nothing, even though she
reported the scam video multiple times: "You know, 'Please take this down.
This is an obvious mistake. This is fraud. You're YouTube, you're helping
dupe people out of their money,'" she said. "They wouldn't," said Steve...
Today is Steve Wozniak's 75th birthday. (You can watch the interview here.)
And the article includes this interesting detail about Woz's life today:
Wozniak sold most of his Apple stock in the mid-1980s when he left the
company. Today, though, he still gets a small paycheck from Apple for making
speeches and representing the company. He says he's proud to see Apple become
a trillion-dollar company. "Apple is still the best," he said. "And when
Apple does things I don't like, and some of the closeness I wish it were more
open, I'll speak out about it. Nobody buys my voice!" I asked, "Apple listen
to you when you speak out?" "No," Wozniak smiled. "Oh, no. Oh, no."
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