Big Tech’s Big Shield Goes to the High Court - The Supreme Court is going to get a crack at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act—and the internet may never be the same.

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While Section 230 has become a hot topic in Congress and the courts in recent years, the justices have not yet ruled on its scope.Their decision could have sweeping ramifications for the nature of the internet itself—and for the companies, large and small, that have relied on the provision to escape legal liability for user content for the last quarter-century.In Gonzalez v. Google, the court will consider a lawsuit filed by the family of Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old American college student killed when ISIS-linked militants launched a series of terrorist attacks across Paris in 2015.Gonzalez’s family alleged that YouTube, a Google subsidiary, gave “material assistance” to and “aided and abetted” the group because the website had “knowingly permitted” ISIS and its supporters to host recruitment and radicalization videos.They also claimed YouTube facilitated the spread of that material through its recommendation algorithm."

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