WASHINGTON : The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider a bid to weaken a legal shield that protects internet companies from a wide array of lawsuits in a major case involving an American student fatally shot in a 2015 rampage by Islamist militants in Paris.The justices are due to hear arguments in a
WASHINGTON : The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider a bid to weaken a legal shield that protects internet companies from a wide array of lawsuits in a major case involving an American student fatally shot in a 2015 rampage by Islamist militants in Paris.
The lawsuit was brought under the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act, a federal law that lets Americans recover damages related to"an act of international terrorism." The case is a threat to free speech, they added, because it could force platforms to suppress anything that could be considered remotely controversial.
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