It's Steve Wozniak's 75th Birthday. Whatever Happened to His YouTube Lawsuit?

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 José Castañeda, 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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