CNN's Kat Kinsman says she doesn't mind Margaret Vestager running the internet. She thinks Congress should have a philosophy around Section 230, which allows Google to be liable for some of its users' online behavior. "This is so fundamentally a congressional thing that's crazy," said Kinsman. 'I really appreciate all three of you.'
As Justice Kagan has asked, “Every other industry has to internalize the costs of its conduct. Why is it that the tech industry gets a pass?” Yet she and the other 8 Supreme Court Justices seemed wary this week as they heard oral arguments in two cases that could upend the Section 230 immunity that social media companies enjoy, Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh. Today, we hear from three experts: Stanford Law professor Evelyn Douek, National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen and UC Berkeley computer science professor Hany Farid. Up for discussion — what’s at stake in these two cases, which way the wind seems to be blowing and, of course, will killing Section 230 kill the internet?
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