The plaintiff claims that “video games are designed, marketed, and sold in a way that creates and sustains addiction in users.” This becomes the anchor for a mondo 260 page complaint against Epic Games, Roblox, Mojang, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Another Axiom, Rec Room, VRChat Inc., Banana Analytics, LLC, InnerSloth, LLC, and PlayEveryWare. In February, Epic, VRChat, Meta, and Rec Room had their claims sent to arbitration. In this ruling, the court grants the motion to dismiss by Another Axiom and Banana Analytics (the “Developer Defendants”) and Google and Roblox (the “Platform Defendants”)
The court says that Google and Roblox win based on Section 230 because “the Court would have to treat the Platform Defendants as publishers or speakers of content created by third parties in order to hold them liable on any of Plaintiff’s claims.”