In Joude et al. v. Wordpress Foundation et al., Case No. C 14-01656 (U.S. District Court, N.D. California, order entered July 3, 2014), the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held that the owner of the WordPress blogging platform was not contractually obligated to remove content that violated the platform’s terms of use provisions forbidding bloggers from impersonating others. The court found that the provision at issue created an obligation for bloggers rather than the platform, and that the terms of use contained other language that expressly reserved the platform’s discretion as to whether to remove violative content.