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After back-to-back oral arguments this week, the Supreme Court appears reluctant to hand down the kind of sweeping ruling about liability for terrorist content on social media that some feared would upend the internet. Here are key takeaways for Wednesday.

On Wednesday, the justices struggled with claims that Twitter contributed to a 2017 ISIS attack in Istanbul by hosting content unrelated to the specific incident. Arguments in that case, Twitter v. Taamneh, came a day after the court considered whether YouTube can be sued for recommending videos created by ISIS to its users. The closely watched cases carry significant stakes for the wider internet.

Justice Clarence Thomas hinted at the potential expansiveness of what Schnapper was proposing in calling for Twitter to be held liable for the ISIS tweets. “If we’re not pinpointing cause-and-effect or proximate cause for specific things, and you’re focused on infrastructure or just the availability of these platforms, then it would seem that every terrorist attack that uses this platform would also mean that Twitter is an aider and abettor in those instances,” Thomas said.

 

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The Supreme Court is worried a ruling against terrorism may inadvertently sweep up white American domestic terrorists into its ambit, which the Court actually supports.

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Content hosting is already being strangled by current laws. This would make any kind of content hosting straight up too much of a liability for businesses. Content hosting will become the sole purview of the dark web at this rate.

2020: Media and social media should have free reign! Even if we attack a sitting president! 2021: Trump tries to reign in the tower of Babylon that is social media. The Left goes (more) insane and says that are being censored. 2022: Elon Musk buys Twitter …,

This comes as Google owner Alphabet announces a possible move to cause any Google search relating to the SCOTUS to be 'rickrolled.' Rick Astley was not available for comment.

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