Mar 15, 2023
Causation and liability can play an inexact role when a crime occurs, and that gray area only gets grayer when a crime starts online. Law students will recognize the but-for test plays a large part of criminal law where they will argue if a crime would not have occurred but for the existence of a specific cause. The Communications Decency Act of 1996 was an early attempt to regulate indecent material on the internet and was later amended to add section 230(c)(1) – a clause to protect online service providers and users from actions being taken against them from a third party. Currently SCOTUS is re-examining section 230 in Gonzales v. Google where Google’s AI forwarded enough hate speech to ultimately result in the death of a family member. Today Jack Russo asks the CLG Educational Team what role humility plays when the Supreme Court makes a decision.
Gonzales v Google's oral argument audio