Tech companies and free-speech advocates warn that changes to current law would incentivize popular services to limit or slow down users’ ability to post to avoid being held liable – as the U.S. Supreme Court hears a potentially groundbreaking case.
Free speech online is on the line as the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in a potentially groundbreaking case on Tuesday.
The case, which was brought by the family of an American who died in a terrorist attack in Paris in 2015, claims Alphabet Inc.’s Google and YouTube did not do enough to remove or stop promoting ISIS terrorist videos seeking to recruit members. The family contends that was in violation of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
While Google lawyer Lisa Blatt told the justices such immunity is essential to tech companies’ ability to provide useful and safe content, Gonzalez family lawyer Eric Schnapper argued that applying Section 230 to algorithmic recommendations provides an incentive to promote harmful content.
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