OA698: Will Clarence Thomas Break the Internet? (Probably Not.)
Opening Arguments
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What's the Point of Section 230?
Clarence Thomas characterized the two protections of section 230 as quote, limited protection. That mischaracterization is absolutely relevant to last week's oral arguments in Gonzalez versus Google because spoiler alert, that case is about what Congress meant when it used the phrase publisher or speaker. What Clarence Thomas thinks is that the exclusion of the word distributor from that phrase means that for example, if your website passes along material that's say illegal, that gets around section 230 entirely.
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