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    Commentary: Here’s how to reform the law that made the internet

    by Mark Weinstein, Los Angeles Times Feb 07, 2023 3 minutes
    The exterior of the new Google Bay View campus is photographed on May 16, 2022, in Mountain View, California. The Google app on an iPad. A case involving the internet giant may help determine how tech companies can boost and moderate their content.

    A Supreme Court case set for oral arguments on Feb. 21 could transform the web as we know it.

    The case was brought by the family of a woman killed in a 2015 Islamic State terrorist attack in Paris. The plaintiffs claimed that YouTube — which is owned by Google — knowingly permitted hundreds of radicalizing videos to be posted, and further alleged that YouTube recommended Islamic State videos to users. Google argued that it’s exempted in this case by Section 230 — the powerful 1996 legislation that shields web and social media companies from

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