Gonzalez, an industrial design major who graduated from Whittier High School, died in an attack at La Belle Equipe bistro. The attackers struck cafes outside the French national stadium and inside the Bataclan theater. She was killed by Islamic State group gunmen in a series of November 2015 attacks that left 130 people dead in Paris and the nearby suburb of Saint-Denis. The lawsuit was filed by the family of Gonzalez, a 23-year-old senior at Cal State Long Beach who was among 17 CSULB students spending a semester Strate College of Design in Paris as part of a study abroad program. “There is,” the lawyers wrote, “no denying that the materials being promoted on social media sites have in fact caused serious harm.” In response, the lawyers for the victim’s family questioned the prediction of dire consequences. “Recommendation algorithms are what make it possible to find the needles in humanity’s largest haystack,” Google’s lawyers wrote in their main Supreme Court brief. “Interactive computer services constantly direct such recommendations, in one form or another, at virtually every adult and child in the United States who uses social media.”Īny narrowing of their immunity could have dramatic consequences that could affect every corner of the internet because websites use algorithms to sort and filter a mountain of data. “Whether Section 230 applies to these algorithm-generated recommendations is of enormous practical importance,” the family argued in an appeal. (Genaro Molina/ Los Angeles Times)īut critics argue that the companies have not done nearly enough and that the law should not block lawsuits over the recommendations, generated by computer algorithms, that point viewers to more material that interests them and keeps them online longer. 4, 2015, file photo shows the funeral for Gonzalez at the Calvary Chapel in Downey. The death of Nohemi Gonzalez, a Cal State Long Beach student killed during the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, is at the center of the Supreme Court’s first case about a federal law that shields Google, Twitter, Facebook and other companies from lawsuits over content posted on their sites. Lower courts have broadly interpreted the law to protect the industry, which the companies and their allies say has fueled the meteoric growth of the internet and encouraged the removal of harmful content. The law is credited with helping create the modern internet The case is the court’s first look at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, adopted early in the internet age, in 1996, to protect companies from being sued over information their users post online. 21, seemed unlikely to side with the family of El Monte resident Nohemi Gonzalez, which wants to hold Google liable for the death of their daughter in the terrorist attack.Īt the same time, the justices also signaled in arguments - which lasted two and a half hours - that they are wary of Google’s claims that a 1996 law affords it, Twitter, Facebook and other companies far-reaching immunity from lawsuits over their targeted recommendations of videos, documents and other content. The death of a Cal State Long Beach student, during the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, was at the center of the Supreme Court’s first case about a federal law that shields Google, Twitter, Facebook and other companies from lawsuits over content posted on their sites.īut the justices, during oral arguments on Tuesday, Feb.
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