After hours of oral argument, the future of YouTube and other platforms’ liability for content management before the U.S. Supreme Court was no more clear Tuesday than when the dispute was first filed.

The case, Gonzalez v. Google, one of two cases focused on how private companies are protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to be heard this week, was supposed to focus on when and how a platform like YouTube is responsible for what it shows a user. But as the debate expanded, going back to the law’s enactment in 1996, court watchers saw a more limited outcome as the implications of the court broadly changing the law became more clear.

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