#SCOTUS: 9-0 against cancelling social media platforms. Richard Epstein, Hoover.
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🗓️ 23 May 2023
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#SCOTUS: 9-0 against cancelling social media platforms. Richard Epstein, Hoover.
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| 0:00.0 | Will interest rates change again? |
| 0:02.0 | What's new where I live? |
| 0:04.0 | Whatever the question, Google helps people in the UK access reliable news on a wide range of stories. |
| 0:11.0 | Learn more at g.co-supportingnews-uk |
| 0:20.0 | This is CBSI on the world I'm John Batsworth, Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution, the headline, |
| 0:25.0 | Scotus Supreme Court of the United States, Spares Section 230, Rules Google Twitter, not libel for aiding ISIS. |
| 0:33.0 | What? Google, Google and Twitter were suspect? |
| 0:37.0 | Professor, Section 230, as I understand it, is something that has now been returned |
| 0:43.0 | remanded to a lower court by a decision of the Supreme Court. |
| 0:46.0 | What is it? What does it mean? Immunity shield. |
| 0:50.0 | Okay, well, there are two things involved in this case. |
| 0:53.0 | One is the commonwealth court action and the other is an effort to break through the shield that FISA provides for individuals by saying that if you are essentially running an internet operation, |
| 1:04.0 | you are not responsible for the content that's posted on that system by a whole variety of individuals. |
| 1:10.0 | And it turns out that you can remove this stuff without exposing yourself to various forms of liability. |
| 1:16.0 | And so essentially what the section was designed to do to promote a vibrant political economy and all the rest of that, |
| 1:22.0 | 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. |
| 1:32.0 | Section 30 is very controversial now because it turns out when you look at Twitter and the other device, |
| 1:39.0 | there's a clear sense that the people running them are running a selective political vendetta and that they're acting in bad faith in ways which might displace you from the stars are running. |
| 1:50.0 | So if this were a case by some famous physician who says, all my commentary about the COVID vaccine has been removed by people who have had an illness, that would be a serious case. |
| 2:00.0 | This isn't that case. |
| 2:01.0 | 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. |
| 2:09.0 | And so the way in which the case actually came down was that the Supreme Court ignored the files that claim and the files are defensive, |
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