Twitter v Tamna and Google vs. Gonzalez will be decided in the next few days. CNN's John Sutter says he was baffled by Twitter lawyer Shlapper's argument that a thumbnail is not enough to constitute aiding and abetting. He thinks judges are scared of drawing a line that could mess everything up, so they won't rule on it immediately.
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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