Hank: the Supreme Court will not find YouTube liable for recommending videos (2023)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2023-03-03) · owner: Hank
In March 2023, explaining Section 230, Hank said it looked like the Supreme Court would not find YouTube liable for recommending videos.
About: Supreme Court of the United States, YouTube, Section 230
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-03 | predicted | Hank says it looks like the Supreme Court will not find YouTube liable in this case. (hedged) | The Law That Made the Internet 00:02:15 |
What is said about it
10 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2023-03-03 · The Law That Made the Internet — Hank says that in August 2019 The New York Times ran an article saying Section 230 shields hate speech online, then corrected it the same day: the First Amendment protects it. — 00:00:00
- 2023-03-03 · The Law That Made the Internet — Hank finds the error kind of funny and also not, given the long history of people misunderstanding Section 230. — 00:00:24
- 2023-03-03 · The Law That Made the Internet — Hank says it is very hard for all of us to adjust to the internet's power, and easy to look toward Section 230, probably the most important piece of legislation in internet history. (hedged) — 00:00:29
- 2023-03-03 · The Law That Made the Internet — Hank says the law passed as part of a much larger bill when Mark Zuckerberg was 11, and when he was 12 the Supreme Court struck down almost all of it except one section. (playful) — 00:00:40
- 2023-03-03 · The Law That Made the Internet — Hank reads Section 230: no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of information provided by another content provider. — 00:00:51
- 2023-03-03 · The Law That Made the Internet — Hank explains with himself as the content provider and YouTube as the service: if he slanders someone or does something illegal, he can be sued, fined or jailed, but YouTube cannot be held liable. — 00:01:03
- 2023-03-03 · The Law That Made the Internet — Hank says recommendation can definitely be seen as creation, but he doesn't think a 1996 law did a good job of anticipating that. — 00:02:38
- 2023-03-03 · The Law That Made the Internet — Hank adds that actually the law had a tremendous amount of foresight and has served us fairly well. — 00:02:45
- 2023-03-03 · The Law That Made the Internet — Hank takes the implication to be that this shouldn't be worked out from words written in 1996, but decided by new legislation that considers the internet as it exists now. (hedged) — 00:03:12
- 2023-03-03 · The Law That Made the Internet — Hank says the provision at issue is 26 words written in 1996. — 00:03:12