Supreme Court seems likely to move cautiously in Gonzalez v. Google – By Robert Barnes (The Washington Post) / Feb 21, 2023
Supreme Court justices suggested Tuesday that they might move cautiously in their first examination of the federal law that protects internet companies from lawsuits concerning the platforms’ posting of content from third parties.
The justices heard more than two and a half hours of arguments regarding the claim by the family of an exchange students killed in an Islamic State attack that Google’s YouTube should be liable for promoting content from the group.
But justices across the ideological spectrum said they were confused by the arguments offered by the family’s lawyer and worried that the court could undermine an effort by Congress to provide immunity for the platforms decades ago, when lawmakers wanted to encourage the development of the internet.
