U.S. Supreme Court,
Civil Rights
Oct. 4, 2022
Supreme Court will hear challenge to platform content immunity
"Anything that narrows the scope of Section 230 will change the internet," said Eric Goldman, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law. "The stakes here are really, really high."
For the first time, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider two cases challenging Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the 1996 federal law that confers immunity on website platforms for third-party content.
The court granted review Monday to a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that dismissed lawsuits by family members of people killed by ISIS terrorists against Alphabet Inc., Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. fo...
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