A case coming before the U.S. Supreme Court, Gonzalez v. Google, challenges Section 230.
A case coming before the U.S. Supreme Court this week, Gonzalez v. Google, challenges this law - namely whether tech companies are liable for the material posted on their platforms.
That legal phrase shields companies that can host trillions of messages from being sued into oblivion by anyone who feels wronged by something someone else has posted - whether their complaint is legitimate or not. That meant plaintiffs had to prove that bookstore owners knew they were selling obscene books, said Jeff Kosseff, the author of "The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet," a book about Section 230.
That didn't sit well with politicians, who worried that outcome would discourage newly forming internet companies from moderating at all. And Section 230 was born.
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