The family of an American college student killed in the Paris terror attacks is asking the US Supreme Court to roll back legal immunity for social media companies.
"If some changes can be done to prevent these terrorist peoplekeeping killing human beings, then that is a big thing," Beatrice Gonzalez, Nohemi Gonzalez's mother, told ABC News in the family's first interview about the case.
"Hopefully this will change the laws and it'll be for the good by being more careful about the social media, sonever have the pain that we're feeling," said Nohemi Gonzalez's stepfather, Jose Hernandez. "Undercutting Section 230 would make it harder for websites to do this work," YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi told ABC News. "Websites would either over-filter any conceivably controversial materials and creators, or shut their eyes to objectionable content like scams, fraud, harassment and obscenity to avoid liability -- making services far less useful, less open and less safe.
The crucial 26 words in the statute say: "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."
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