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Sites to heavily police the content posted, and the justices also asked whether it's 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, we're a court. we really don't know about these things. these are not like the nine greatest experts on the internet. isn't that something for congress to do, not the court? >> the gonzales family has lost the case at the lower courts, but they can't to search for justice ...

The protections of section 230, but they confront that different issue in today's case that is now under way. arguments started just a few minutes ago. the question today is whether a terrorist victim's 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 sites allowed content. in degree so, guys that would eliminate both of these cases without the suprem...

Extremists spread their message. >> it's what appears on youtube, search engines, et cetera. jessica schneider has been following the arguments. i wonder what you're 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 to warn that any major changes to the laws that currently police the internet would really casca...

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 heard by the supreme court to determine if the social media companies can be held liable for terror...

Succeeds, it would require social media sites to heavily police the content posted, and the justices also asked whether it's 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, we're a court. we really don't know about these things. these are not the nine greatest experts on the internet. is that sthng for congress to do, not the court? >> reporter: the gonzalez family lost the case at the lower courts, bu...