Section 230 at the Supreme Court: A Post-Mortem on the Gonzalez and Taamneh Oral Arguments

Tuesday, March 7, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
(Pacific)
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The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh -- two cases that could alter, in fundamental ways, the legal architecture of the Internet.  The oral arguments gave us a glimpse on how the Justices may be thinking about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and questions of platform liability for user generated speech.  Along with the Netchoice cases that the Court may take up next term, these decisions could have profound implications for the future of free expression online.  Join Daphne Keller, the Director of the Program on Platform Regulation in the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, in conversation with CPC Co-Director Nate Persily for a discussion of these cases and their implications. 

About the Speaker

Daphne Keller's work focuses on platform regulation and Internet users' rights. She has testified before legislatures, courts, and regulatory bodies around the world, and published both academically and in popular press on topics including platform content moderation practices, constitutional and human rights law, copyright, data protection, and national courts' global takedown orders. Her recent work focuses on legal protections for users’ free expression rights when state and private power intersect, particularly through platforms’ enforcement of Terms of Service or use of algorithmic ranking and recommendations. Until 2020, Daphne was the Director of Intermediary Liability at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society. She also served until 2015 as Associate General Counsel for Google, where she had primary responsibility for the company’s search products. Daphne has taught Internet law at Stanford, Berkeley, and Duke law schools. She is a graduate of Yale Law School, Brown University, and Head Start. She is the Director of the Program on Platform Regulation at the Cyber Policy Center at Stanford.