The 26 Words That Made The Internet What It Is (Encore)
The Indicator from Planet Money
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🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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This episode originally came out in April 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | NPR. |
| 0:03.0 | This is the indicator from Planet Money. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm Whalen Wong. |
| 0:13.9 | And I'm Darym Woods. |
| 0:15.7 | And this week, Whalen, you and I, and probably every big internet company are closely watching |
| 0:21.6 | the Supreme Court. |
| 0:22.6 | That's right. |
| 0:23.6 | There's two cases being argued before the Court. |
| 0:26.5 | One involving Google, the other involving Twitter, and they could transform the way they |
| 0:31.7 | and social media operate. |
| 0:33.5 | So you know, no big deal. |
| 0:35.1 | Yeah, no big deal. |
| 0:36.1 | Because at the heart of these cases is section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. |
| 0:43.3 | And there's a key part that's just 26 words. |
| 0:45.9 | Darym and I will let you do the honors. |
| 0:47.5 | Okay, I'll bring it up. |
| 0:49.7 | No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher |
| 0:55.6 | or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider. |
| 1:01.2 | End quote. |
| 1:02.2 | I think 1996 is calling on a landline and they want their interactive computer service |
| 1:07.3 | back. |
| 1:08.3 | I can hear a screeching modem right now talking about interactive computer services. |
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