'Section 230 is a foundational and widely misunderstood law that protects human rights and free expression online,' said fightfortheftr director evan_greer after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider a related case.
The question now before the court is whether Section 230 protects internet platforms when their algorithms target users and recommend someone else's content. The case was filed by the family of an American woman killed in a Paris bistro in an ISIS attack in 2015. They brought their lawsuit under the Antiterrorism Act, arguing that Google aided ISIS's recruitment through YouTube videos—specifically, recommending ISIS videos to users through its algorithms.
Wood said that"Section 230 balances the understandable desire and need for accountability for heinous acts like the deadly attacks perpetrated in these cases against the need to protect free expression, open dialogue, and all manner of beneficial activities on the modern internet." "We'd risk chilling online expression too, since not all plaintiffs suing to remove ideas they don't like would be proceeding in good faith as the victims' families here clearly did," he added."Both risks are especially significant for Black and Brown communities, LGBTQIA+ people, immigrants, religious minorities, dissidents, and all people and ideas targeted for suppression or harassment by powerful forces.
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