Episode description
On February 21 2023 the US Supreme Court will hold oral hearings in two cases that might fundamentally change internet governance in the US and worldwide: Gonzalez v. Google LLC and Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh challenge the principle that platforms are not liable for users' content provided they have no actual knowledge of it. The Cases might lead to a fundamental reinterpretation of Section 230 of Title 47 of United States Code which currently reads as follows: ""No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." (47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(1)).
We speak with Katerina Polychronopoulos. Katerina is a lawyer who received her Juris Doctorate in 2012 from the University of Illinois and has been working at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law since 2019.
Links:
https://id.univie.ac.at/en/team/univ-prof-dr-nikolaus-forgo/team/polychronopoulos-katerina/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalez_v._Google_LLC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter,_Inc._v._Taamneh
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/gonzalez-v-google-llc/
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/twitter-inc-v-taamneh/