Section 230 In Hot Seat and Meta's Account Verification
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🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow break down Section 230 as the Supreme Court hears arguments on the Internet's critical law. Plus, Meta takes cues from Twitter as the Facebook parent plans to ask users to pay for account verification.
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| 0:00.0 | Join global business leaders and investors at the Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit, returning to Singapore on July 31st. |
| 0:09.0 | Take part in solutions driven discussions on how to drive business value and unlock opportunity |
| 0:14.8 | while remaining nimble in times of change and greater ESG accountability. |
| 0:19.5 | Learn more at Bloomberg Live.com slash sustainablebiz Singapore. That's Bloomberg Live.com slash Sustainable Biz Singapore. |
| 0:24.0 | That's Bloomberg Live.com slash sustainable Biz Singapore. I'm Caroline Heine |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Caroline Heine-Hyne Blumberg's world headquarters in New York. |
| 0:46.0 | And I'm Ed Ludlow in San Francisco, this is Bloomberg Technology. |
| 0:50.0 | Coming up, section 230 front and center as the Supreme Court hears arguments on the internet's critical law. |
| 0:56.0 | We'll bring you the latest from the courtroom. |
| 0:58.0 | And Meta, taking cues from Twitter as the Facebook parent plans to ask users to pay for |
| 1:04.4 | account verification. We'll run you through the details as analysts call the |
| 1:07.8 | plan a no-brainer. And we'll hear from the Microsoft President. Brad Smith |
| 1:11.6 | is the company fights to save its 69 billion dollar Activision deal over in Europe. |
| 1:16.1 | Let's stick with the Supreme Court. Justices today, we're expressing concern about opening |
| 1:21.3 | internet companies to lawsuits from harmful user posts in a ruling that could transform the online world |
| 1:27.0 | by removing that key legal underpinning. |
| 1:30.0 | Section 230 for all let's bring in Bloomberg's Emily Birnbaum who's tracking all of the |
| 1:33.7 | proceedings. Emily, give us the top lines of what the judges were deliberating |
| 1:37.7 | over in court. |
| 1:40.4 | So the case in question is called Gonzales versus Google. |
| 1:44.0 | They're trying to figure out if YouTube should be held liable for promoting terrorism videos. |
| 1:52.0 | So it's the act of recommending the videos that the court is |
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