Doe v. Grindr Inc.

Issues: (1) Whether Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act immunizes apps from liability for their own conduct in marketing and designing defective products and without providing sufficient warnings; (2) whether the following activities traditional publishing functions that justify dismissal on a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) motion under Section 230: (a) determining who is offered access to an app, (b) extracting unpublished location data from users, or (c) algorithmically recommending nearby strangers to one another for in-person encounters; and (3) whether a sex hookup app is not liable for trafficking pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1591 or 18 U.S.C. § 1595 even if it knowingly profits from intentionally marketing to children and recommending them to nearby adults for sex.