One of the most closely watched pending cases of the Supreme Court’s current term, Gonzalez v. Google, may result in a ruling that profoundly changes how online platforms operate and signals a broader societal shift against the excesses of big tech, legal experts and observers of the industry have told The Epoch Times.
Gonzalez v. Google originated in Paris in November 2015, when a coordinated series of attacks orchestrated by the terrorist group ISIS killed 129 people, including a young American woman, Nohemi Gonzalez. Her family contends that the perpetrators of the attack became radicalized at least partly by watching videos available on YouTube, which Google owns, and that the content-related liberties that tech platforms claim under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which falls under Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, does not shield Google from liability.
