The Supreme Court may overhaul how you live online

Now they're at the center of a landmark legal case that ultimately has the power to completely change how we live online. On February 21, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, which deals with allegations that Google violated the Anti-Terrorism Act when YouTube's recommendations promoted ISIS content. It's the first time the court will consider a legal provision called Section 230. Section 230 is the legal foundation that, for decades, all the big internet companies with any user generated stuff--Google, Facebook, Wikimedia, AOL, even Craigslist--built their policies and often businesses upon. As I wrote last week, it has "long protected social platforms from lawsuits over harmful user-generated content while giving them leeway to remove posts at their discretion."