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Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants

What happens if Section 230 goes away? Section 230 won’t be easily dismantled. But if it is, online speech could be drastically transformed.

Two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court this week challenge Section 230, a 1996 law that protects tech companies from liability for material posted on their networks. The cases are part of a global trend toward holding social media platforms accountable.

In a case with the potential to alter the very structure of the internet, the Supreme Court explored Tuesday the limits of a federal law that shields social media platforms from legal responsibility for what users post on their sites.

We interview the cast and crew of Prime Video series The Consultant starring Christoph Waltz and Nat Wolff

Legal phrase tucked into 1996 law protects companies Facebook, Twitter and Google from being sued into oblivion for libel.

Mail or compuserve is completely asinine. isnt it time for congress to start holding mark zuckerberg and elon musk and other owners of these, these corporations, just to the same standard that everybody else is held to? why do we carve things out for -- i would have said jack dorsey before and i did say that a couple years ago. this is -- its just insanity that were allowing these billion dollar corporations to, to have an exemption that nobody else has. >> you know, joe, youre making a powerful...

Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today.

WASHINGTON -- In November 2015, three rifle-wielding ISIS gunmen opened fire at restaurant in Paris, killing 23-year-old Nohemi Gonzalez, a college exchange student. Almost eight years later, her family is seeking justice for her death, targeting not the gunmen, but the tech giant YouTube, in a landmark case that could shift the foundations of internet law.

Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today