Devastating. Disabling. Disastrous. Big Tech is in a panic as Section 230, a long-standing shield against liability for what others post on the internet, is about to have its day in court.

Oral arguments are set for Feb. 21 in Gonzalez v. Google, where the parents of a young woman killed in a 2015 terrorist attack in Paris seek to hold YouTube accountable for hosting and recommending ISIS recruitment videos to users through its algorithm. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided the case in Google’s favor, but, in a partial dissent, Justice Ronald Gould blasted social media companies for publicizing and proliferating terror attacks, writing the the “so-called ‘neutral’ algorithms created by Facebook, Twitter, and Google, are then transformed into deadly missiles of destruction by ISIS, even though they were not initially intended to be used that way.”

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