Big Tech and others defending Instagram and its ilk don't address a youth mental health crisis in their filings with the Supreme Court in a Section 230 case.
In legal disputes as in life, sometimes what isn’t said reveals more than what is. Consider the briefs filed with the Supreme Court in defense of a law granting Google and other tech companies limited immunity from lawsuits.
Gonzalez vs. Google, slated for oral argument before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, concerns Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a law enacted in 1996 to regulate the then-new internet. Child advocacy groups that filed friend-of-the-court briefs in the case note that social media platforms are knowingly hurting children by delivering dangerous content in an
manner. Tellingly, none of the scores of briefs filed on the side of the tech companies address those harms.” not just from explicit content but also from abuse. Ironically, the platforms are now arguing that Congress actually intended to offer them immunity for business decisions that they know will hurt children.was brought by the family of an American murdered by ISIS in the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks.
The repercussions of social media’s rise go well beyond increased access to terrorist content. During the years Instagram exploded from a million to a billion users, the United States saw an astonishing
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