WASHINGTON, Feb 21 — The US Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider a law that since 1996 has protected tech companies from lawsuits related to content posted on their platforms....
WASHINGTON, Feb 21 — The US Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider a law that since 1996 has protected tech companies from lawsuits related to content posted on their platforms.
The US citizen was studying in France and was murdered at the Belle Equipe bar by attackers from the Islamic State group. The complaint was dismissed by the federal courts on behalf of a law, known as Section 230, which was passed when the Internet was in its infancy and has become one of its pillars.
“The selection of the users to whom ISIS videos were recommended was determined by computer algorithms created and implemented by YouTube,” the Gonzalez family legal brief said. “Recommendation algorithms are what make it possible to find the needles in humanity’s largest haystack,” Google said. In the past, several of the Supreme Court justices have expressed a willingness to move the lines on Section 230, which is increasingly contested given the backlash against big tech in recent years.
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