Lawyers for Google warned the Supreme Court this week against upending federal law that shields Big Tech companies from legal liability, saying the move could create a “litigation minefield.”
The tech giant was sued by relatives of a victim of a 2015 terrorist attack in Paris. The family argued Google allowed YouTube, which it operates, to promote certain content and videos to the Islamic State, or ISIS, in order to help recruit terrorists.
The family is asking the justices to upend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which has protected social media companies from liability in civil lawsuits, considering the platforms’ conduits rather than actual speakers.