A judge named Josh Thacker of Spalding County, Georgia (South of Atlanta a bit) threw out Wentworth Maynard's lawsuit against Snapchat siting a dangerous precedent that would be set should things go the other way. I'm not sure if it is called the speed filter or the speedometer filter but Snapchat had a filter which would tell you how fast you were going in terms of MPH (miles per hour). Anyhow, some teenage girls or maybe just some young twenty something girls tried to get a car up to a three digit number herein if memory serves so that they could take selfies of themselves with the filter afloat and they ended up tapping cars with Wentworth Maynard's car and there was a modestly terrible accident in which no one died but he wound up with permanent brain damage. He tried to sue Snapchat over its unsafe filter alongside the driver, a Christal McGee. We see warning labels on things all the time right? These are brought about by lawsuits and Ralph Nader and more lawsuits. However... should this stuff collide with free speech? I don't think so. I applaud this decision in contrast to this decision.
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