You can LISTEN LIVE *NOW* to the US #SupremeCourt oral arguments about #GonzalezVsGoogle and #Section230 at either:

C-SPAN: https://www.c-span.org/video/?525323-1/gonzalez-v-google-oral-argument

Supreme Court: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/live.aspx

There are no cameras in the courtroom, so it's only live audio. The only advantage of C-SPAN is that they are showing names and images of *who* is speaking.

#Internet

tip @Techmeme

@danyork @internetsociety The Gonzalez Vs Google case is considering whether algorithms are protected by Section 230. Platforms control their algorithms but take no responsibility for their algorithm's recommendations. I would happily give up some content discoverability if it meant ending dangerous and addictive recommendation engines. That's one of the reasons I use Mastodon

#GonzalezVsGoogle #Section230

Colleagues of mine at the @internetsociety who understand these legal issues far more than me filed an amicus brief in #GonzalezVsGoogle explaining why #Section230 is so important for the open #Internet.

You can read an overview of the Internet Society’s amicus brief at:

https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Quick-Overview-of-Amicus-Brief-Gonzalez-v-Google.pdf

and read the full brief at:

https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Internet-Society-Gonzalez-v-Google-Amicus-Brief.pdf

And yes, Section 230 is only a US law, and the Internet is of course global.

But even though this is a court case in the United States, the impact could be more global because so many of the largest services on the Internet are *based* in the USA. Google, Meta (with Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, Apple.

If “recommendation algorithms” are not protected under Section 230, then this could open up so many new legal liability issues.

#Section230 #GonzalezVsGoogle