Conservative and liberal Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Tuesday that a social media platform's inaction in removing terrorist content amounts to aiding and abetting terror plots. The court heard oral argument in Gonzalez v. Google (docket 21-1333) (see 2301130028).
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Karl Herchenroeder, Associate Editor, is a technology policy journalist for publications including Communications Daily. Born in Rockville, Maryland, he joined the Warren Communications News staff in 2018. He began his journalism career in 2012 at the Aspen Times in Aspen, Colorado, where he covered city government. After that, he covered the nuclear industry for ExchangeMonitor in Washington. You can follow Herchenroeder on Twitter: @karlherk
A social media platform’s awareness of terrorist activity on the service doesn’t amount to aiding and abetting terror attacks (see 2301120061), Twitter argued Friday before the Supreme Court (docket 21-1496).
The U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana should dismiss a lawsuit from Missouri and Louisiana claiming Biden administration officials colluded with Big Tech to censor social media content because the states’ First Amendment claims are “meritless,” DOJ argued Wednesday in docket 3:22-cv-01213.
The Supreme Court should consider remanding a Communications Decency Act Section 230 case to the lower courts to determine if social media filtering is protected by the statute, petitioners argued Tuesday in Gonzalez v. Google (docket 21-1333) (see 2301200059).
GoDaddy isn’t liable for a gambling service allegedly hijacking a domain name due to Communication Decency Act Section 230 immunity, a 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Friday (docket 21-16182).
A fashion model can’t sue Amazon, Walmart and Ulta for using her likeness in advertising because the companies are immune under Communications Decency Act Section 230, U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman for Southern New York in Manhattan ruled in an opinion and order Jan. 17 (docket 1:22-cv-00325).
The Supreme Court requested DOJ’s input in three cases on social media laws in Texas and Florida, setting up potential high court review this fall (see 2301030062).
Communications Decency Act Section 230 protects YouTube from liability for sharing terror-related content, and if those protections are eliminated, the internet could become a “litigation minefield,” Google argued before the Supreme Court Thursday in Gonzalez v. Google (docket 21-1333) (see 2212290055).
Google, Facebook and Twitter knowingly provided “substantial assistance” to Islamic State group attacks, and the Supreme Court should affirm a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision holding Twitter liable for abetting terrorists, respondents argued Wednesday in Twitter v. Taamneh (docket 21-1496) (see 2212060063).
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana should dismiss the Biden administration’s attempts to throw out a lawsuit from Republican state attorneys general claiming federal officials colluded with Big Tech to censor social media information, AGs from Missouri and Louisiana argued in a filing Friday (see 2212080048) and 2211220054) (docket 3:22-cv-01213).