Next week the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear two major cases involving big technology companies, with key aspects of the internet on the line with its rulings later this year.
legal computer judge concept, cyber gavel,3D illustrationNext week the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear two
“Section 230 is the foundational law of the modern internet. It was devised in 1996 to encourage the development of internet platforms that would facilitate speech,” Anupam Chander, Georgetown University law professor, told Yahoo News. “Section 230 said the internet speakers who say harmful things are to be held responsible for what they said, but the platforms that might carry that kind of harmful speech will not be liable for that speech.”.
“We've got these two cases, and they're going in different directions and have two different statutes,” Chander said. In an effort to understand the arguments of both sides of the cases and what sort of implications they could ultimately have on a user’s internet experience, Chander broke it down to Yahoo News. Some answers have been edited for length and clarity.These cases are cases of statutory interpretation. The Supreme Court is the ultimate arbiter of what a federal statute means.
If the cases are similar, why isn’t Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act a factor in the Twitter case?
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