Courts reject negligence liability for outcomes of imitative media violence.

Evidence

The law does not have much to say about influence through social modeling. Proving intentional incitement via a vicarious mode of influence is a formidable legal challenge. The rape lawsuit was dismissed at all appellate levels, not only on free-speech protection but also on the grounds that subjecting networks to negligence liability would have a self-censoring, chilling effect that would stifle expression of varied views. … When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the case had to be tried on constitutional rather than negligence grounds, the family dropped the lawsuit. Years later, the Supreme Court struck down as an infringement on free speech a California law prohibiting children from buying violent video games. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 797

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to vault claims about how institutions shield harmful actors from accountability, mirroring the channelling/diffusion logic of moral disengagement.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 797