Supreme Court Hearings on Section 230 Point to Broader Showdown Over Future of Online Speech

(Source: The Defender)

The U.S. Supreme Court this week held hearings on a pair of cases that may go a long way toward determining the future of online speech, according to legal scholars and tech analysts.

The two consolidated cases — Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh — relate to American victims of terrorist attacks, and to content hosted by online platforms that the plaintiffs in the respective cases allege helped fuel the terror attacks.

The plaintiffs in Gonzalez v. Google are the parents of Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old American college student from California State University, Long Beach, who was killed during an ISIS terrorist attack at La Belle Epoque bistro in November 2015. Gonzalez was studying in Paris at the time.