A man who wanted to run for Governor of New York but did not receive enough signatures to be placed on the ballot has lost his attempt to sue Yahoo and Ask.com for undermining his "master election plan."
Then he sued Yahoo,
Murawski sued Ronald Gunzburger, who runs the political Web site Poltics1.com for not listing him on the site and violating his right to free speech. When Gunzburger did list Murawski along with other candidates he then sued because he was listed next to a communist. Murawski said that when search engines found the list the listing made him look like he was a communist. According to The
The court threw the suit out saying, "It is thus apparent that Gunzburger did not identify plaintiff as a communist on his website, and thus there is no basis for plaintiff's claim against Gunzburger," he said. "The fact that various search engines displayed the text from Politics1.com without line breaks is not attributable to Gunzburger." Murawski sued Ask.com because it reproduced Gunzburger's list. The court said Ask.com was protected by section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which states that interactive service providers are protected from prosecution when they publish content of a third party.
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