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That could break the internet, whether tech platforms can be sued for hosting or promoting conflict. it could lead to major changes at sites. brian fung is following this for us. how could these cases i guess alter how the internet is regulated? >> yeah, that is a great question. these are two really important cases being argued this week at the supreme court, one argued by twitter, the other by google. the first case gonzalez v google is whether youtube can be sued by the family of an american killed in a 2015 isis attack over youtube videos that were created by isis and recommended to users ...

Attack, say google should be held legally responsible for that attack for recommending those videos. but google says that it is immune from that lawsuit because of a federal law known as section 230 of the communications decency act, and that law protects the right of websites and tech platforms to moderate their websites as they see fit. in other words, google says it is not responsible and it can't be sued. now, for years tech platforms have used section 230 to nip these sorts of lawsuits in the bud effectively ending them before they can even get off the ground. but now for the first time t...