SCOTUS rules Google and Twitter didn't contribute to terrorist attacks
The cases were brought by the families of Nohemi Gonzalez and Nawras Alassaf, who died in ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris and Istanbul in 2015 and 2017, respectively. The families sued Twitter, Google, and Facebook under a provision of the Anti-Terrorism Act that allows those who have been injured by acts of terror to seek civil damages.
While the suits concerned the Anti-Terrorism Act, Google's defense relied in part on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which more or lessinternet companies from liability for content generated by their users. There are some caveats. Crucially, Section 230 states:"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." The idea here is that websites and apps that allow people to communicate with each other shouldn't normally be held liable for the content of that communication.
"As alleged by plaintiffs, defendants designed virtual platforms and knowingly failed to do 'enough' to remove ISIS-affiliated users and ISIS-related content – out of hundreds of millions of users worldwide and an immense ocean of content – from their platforms," he"Yet, plaintiffs have failed to allege that defendants intentionally provided any substantial aid to the Reina attack or otherwise consciously participated in the Reina attack – much less that defendants so...
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