The court just heard oral arguments in two cases, Gonzalez versus Google and Twitter versus Tomnay. Both involve terrorism and families claiming that these companies are liable for the loss of family members as a result of aiding and abetting terrorists effectively. Evelyn Duak is a professor at Stanford Law School who's focused on regulation of online speech. Hani Fareed from UC Berkeley School of Information is a computer scientist and he's an expert in misinformation. Jeffrey Rosen teaches at GW Law School and is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center.
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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