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Section 230 currently gives internet platforms blanket immunity from any content that comes from a third party and, crucially for the day's case, even if it is pushed out as a recommendation by the website.
Whether Google can be held liable for recommending harmful content on YouTube is at the heart of a watershed case that could shape the future of the internet.
Justice Elena Kagan said she and colleagues "are not like the nine greatest experts on the internet."
In its first case about the federal law that is credited with helping create the modern Internet, the Supreme Court seemed unlikely to side with a family wanting to hold Google liable for the death of their daughter in a terrorist attack.
The Internet could soon face a significant transformation, courtesy of the Supreme Court. Justices heard arguments in a case questioning whether tech companies should be liable for content on their platforms. Currently, a decades-old law protects big tech. However, that could change with a landmark decision involving a 23-year-old college student whose family is suing YouTube's parent company, Google, for giving a platform to ISIS terrorists who murdered her.