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Supreme Court Punts Debate Over Section 230 Back to Congress

The Supreme Court’s decision to dodge weighing in on a controversial liability shield for internet companies has punted the issue back to Congress.

Expectations had run high that the justices would be the ones to significantly narrow the provision, known as Section 230, when the court agreed to directly take up the question of how far its protections reached.

But the court resolved the cases against Twitter and Google on other grounds Thursday, leaving Section 230 unscathed until Congress acts or the high court takes up another case. And despite bipartisan criticism that the provision makes the tech industry unaccountable, lawmakers face a stalemate on how to reform it.

Read the source article at thehill.com

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