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SCOTUS on the Internet: “It’s Complicated”

SCOTUS on the Internet: “It’s Complicated”

FromAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts


SCOTUS on the Internet: “It’s Complicated”

FromAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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Length:
55 minutes
Released:
Feb 25, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

For every person screaming about Section 230 (looking at you, Ted Cruz), there are approximately 0.0000001 Danielle Citrons, i.e. folks who actually understand it, what it does, and how it might be tweaked or interpreted to do better. Luckily, we have a whole Professor Danielle Citron on this week’s show. Professor Citron not only manages to make sense of Section 230 for us, she also takes us through this week's internet cases involving Twitter and Google, and content moderation and liability. She explains how eight out of nine justices apparently failed to read the briefs, instead deciding on an "it's so hard" shruggy head-scratch strategy instead. Danielle Citron’s latest book is The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age.
In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern to look ahead to next week’s arguments about the Biden administration’s student debt forgiveness program, and to romp through some of the decisions that came down from the Supreme Court this week. Finally, Mark and Dahlia reflect on the results of the primaries in the race to elect a new Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice. Could it be a Mark and Dahlia Amicus plus segment that is not all bad news? 
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Released:
Feb 25, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America.