This is CBS I and the World. I'm John Matz with Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover

Institution, the headline, Scotus, Supreme Court of the United States, spares Section 230,

rules Google, Twitter, not liable for aiding ISIS. What? Google, Google and Twitter were

suspect. Professor, Section 230, as I understand it, is something that has now been returned

remanded to a lower court by a decision of the Supreme Court. What is it? What does it mean

immunity shield? Okay, well, there are two things involved in this case. One is the common

more court action and the other is an effort to break through the shield that fires it

provides for individuals by saying that if you're a century of running an internet operation,

you're not responsible for the content that's posted on that system by a whole variety

of individuals. And it turns out that you can remove this stuff without exposing yourself

the various forms of liability. And so essentially what the section was designed to do to promote

a vibrant political economy and all the rest of that was to give them a shield against

liability on the one hand and to give them proactive means to make sure that the system

runs pretty well. Section 30 is very controversial now because it turns out when you look at Twitter

and the other device, there's a clear sense that the people running them are running a

selector political vendetta and that they're acting in bad faith in ways which might displace

you from the spies are running. So if this were a case by some famous physician who says,

or my commentary about the COVID vaccine has been removed by people who have had a miscarriage,

that would be a serious case. This isn't that case. This is the case in which they're trying

to hold somebody liable for the terrorist activity by people who may or may not have read their

tweets. And so the way in which the case actually came down was that the Supreme Court ignored the

Pfizer claim and the Pfizer defense, but they didn't have to raise them because they decided

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