I think this is better handled by Congress. When you go to Capitol Hill, you hear very different things from the other side of the aisle. The right hates the technology sector because they have bought into this false narrative that content moderation is anti-conservative. So I'm not particularly hopeful that Congress is going to move in the right direction. We are a country of 350 million people, about 5% of the world's population. We need to think very carefully how we start to litigate and regulate the internet. And I don't know that I have confidence in Congress to do that.
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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