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Sites to heavily police the content posted, and the justices also asked whether its congress and not the courts who should clarify how much tech companies are protected. >> every other industry has to internalize the costs of its conduct. why is it that the tech industry gets a pass? a little bit unclear. on the other hand, were a court. we really dont know about these things. these are not like the nine greatest experts on the internet. isnt that something for congress to do, not the court? >> ...

The protections of section 230, but they confront that different issue in todays case that is now under way. arguments started just a few minutes ago. the question today is whether a terrorist victims family can sue social media for even allowing terrorist content on their site. guys, a lower court said yes that they can sue because of a federal anti-terrorism law, but a lot of court watchers are saying that the supreme court could possibly say no, you cannot sue for just the fact that these sit...

Extremists spread their message. >> its what appears on youtube, search engines, et cetera. jessica schneider has been following the arguments. i wonder what youre hearing and a lot of it is reading tea leaves and how the tech companies are arguing this, but what are the headlines? >> the headlines are yesterday, jim, the supreme court really seemed hesitant to step in here and really rock the boat in the way that internet companies operate. when it comes to the tech companies side they continue...

Difficulty of drawing lines in this area. and just because of the fact that once we go with you, all of the sudden, we are finding that google is not protected, and maybe congress should watch that system, and maybe that is something for congress to do and not the court. so there is a lot of uncertainty by the justices of whether to step in, and how much they should tweak section 230 which for decades has given the broad protection for the social media companies, and this is first of two cases...

Succeeds, it would require social media sites to heavily police the content posted, and the justices also asked whether its congress and not the courts who should clarify how much tech companies are protected. >> every other industry has to internalize the costs of this conduct. why is it that the tech industry gets a pass? a little bit unclear. on the other hand, were a court. we really dont know about these things. these are not the nine greatest experts on the internet. is that sthng for cong...

So this is the family of that american student who was killed in paris in 2015. they want youtube and its parent company google held liable for her death at the hands of isis terrorists. they say that google not only allowed on youtube this terrorist content, these terrorist videos, but also that they recommended these videos to certain viewers. youtube is responding back saying, yes, we have these algorithms that make these certain recommendations but were broadly protected under section 230 wh...

A pass? a little bit unclear. on the other hand, were a court, we really dont know about these things. you know these are not like the nine greatest experts on the internet. isnt that something for congress to do, not the court? >> so the justices really struggled here to understand the issues in this case and to decide what to do here. abby, this wont be the last that theyll here on the issue. this is the first of two cases theyll hear the other one tomorrow. all of these cases will determine s...

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Legally speaking. the change is unlikely to come from members of congress but rather the score. two cases to the high court challenged 230 the law that shields social media companies from getting sued over third party content on their site. one suit that scotus will take up accuses youtubes ago chrisms of spreading terror wrist content and that youtube didnt do enough to block terrorists from using the platform. >> theyve been so focused on basically taking conservatives off the platform theyve ...

It the section 230. in one scotus will take up whether youtubes algorithm spread terrorist contest and others argued twitter didnt go far enough to block terrorists from using the platform. >> theyve been so focused on taking conservatives off the platform theyve lost track of terrorist content. no content moderation making sure it stays off the platform. you have a misuse of resources essentially. >> experts say updates to section 230 probably wont come from lawmakers in congress, rich. there i...