as we know it could soon be dramatically transformed, with the Supreme Court set to hear a high-stakes pair of oral arguments over holding social media companies liable for content posted by third-party providers.
It will be the first time the justices will review the Communications Decency Act's Section 230, which has been in effect since 1996. It gives digital platforms a measure of immunity from some criminal and civil claims. Several lower courts have interpreted Section 230 as giving some of the largest companies in the world broad legal protection.
Tech experts say the high court's decision would not only affect web search results, but potentially social media feeds, apps, online marketplace listings and streaming services content. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, about 40 million people used the internet worldwide when Section 230 was enacted. By 2019, more than four billion people were online, with 3.5 billion of them using social media platforms. In 1996, there were fewer than 300,000 websites; by 2017, there were more than 1.7 billion.
The law also says that no interactive computer service provider"shall be held liable" for what Justice Thomas said in 2020 were"good-faith acts to restrict access to, or remove, certain types of objectionable content; or... giving consumers tools to filter the same types of content." "Section 230 was not intended to allow a handful of companies to grow into titans controlling vital avenues for our national discourse under the guise of promoting open forums for debate, and then to provide those behemoths blanket immunity when they use their power to censor content and silence viewpoints that they dislike," the executive order stated.
Citing internal company emails recently published under the so-called"Twitter Files," Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said last month,"These emails confirm what we’ve known all along, The [Biden administration] has been colluding with social media companies to stifle opposing voices. I will continue to push back against this blatant attack on the 1st Amendment with every tool at my disposal.
Supreme court is the joke of America. Let them regain sanity first.
Libs when given the chance of more freedom of speech
About time.
Don't forget facebooks ' fact checkers'....
You're going to do everything you can to pretend that you didn't lie to your viewers, and you continue to lie, because you know the game was rigged in conservative media's favor:
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