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Supreme Court skirts decision on rule that protects social media companies from what users post

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The Supreme Court declined to address the legal liability shield that protects tech platforms from being held responsible for their users’ posts, the court said in an unsigned opinion on Thursday.

In the case, Gonzalez v. Google, the court said it would “decline to address the application” of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a law that protects online platforms from being held responsible for the content of their users’ posts and also protects the platforms’ ability to moderate or remove posts from their services. The court said it made that decision because the complaint “appears to state little, if any, plausible claim for relief.”

The Supreme Court said it would vacate and remand, or send back, the decision to the Ninth Circuit court to reconsider in light of its decision on a separate case, Twitter v. Taamneh.

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