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Speaker 1: Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland, Diamond Executive producer with I Heart Radio and

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Speaker 1: how the tech are you. It's time for the tech

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Speaker 1: news for Tuesday, October four, two thousand twenty two. Now,

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Speaker 1: earlier this year, I did an episode about a part

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Speaker 1: of the ninety nineties six Communications Decency Act called Section

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Speaker 1: to thirty. It's been in the news a lot over

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years, particularly in US politics. Now,

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Speaker 1: this section says, quote no provider or user of an

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Speaker 1: interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or

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Speaker 1: speaker of any information provided by another information content provider

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Speaker 1: end quote. Okay. Essentially, what this section says is that, say,

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Speaker 1: a web platform like a social media site cannot be

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Speaker 1: treated as if it were the responsible party for the

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Speaker 1: stuff that its users post to that platform. So if

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Speaker 1: I jumped onto a social media site to docks someone,

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Speaker 1: or to spread lies about someone or something, or attempt

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Speaker 1: to incite violence, the platform would not be held accountable

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Speaker 1: for my actions. My platform. I really just I mean

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Speaker 1: lots of stuff, not just social media sites and internet

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Speaker 1: service provider could be an example, an I s P.

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Speaker 1: I s P s give us the connections that we

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Speaker 1: need in order to interact online. If they were to

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Speaker 1: be held responsible for the stuff that people do when

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Speaker 1: they're online, well then the whole system would come crashing

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Speaker 1: down pretty quickly. If you could sue an I s

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Speaker 1: that was harmful to you, it doesn't take long for

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Speaker 1: you to imagine a situation where everybody is suing everyone

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Speaker 1: for everything. Section to thirty allows for a couple of

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Speaker 1: other things as well, such as protecting platforms for when

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Speaker 1: they remove, van or block posts that violate the platform's rules.

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Speaker 1: So if I were to post something on Facebook that

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Speaker 1: was in violation of Facebook's terms of service, Facebook could

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Speaker 1: totally remove my post and Facebook would not be legally

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Speaker 1: liable for that. I would have no case if I

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Speaker 1: sued the company. I mean, I could sue Facebook, but

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Speaker 1: they could cite Section to thirty in a court would

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Speaker 1: find that my lawsuit has no merit because Facebook is

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Speaker 1: allowed to do that. The reason I say that is

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Speaker 1: now the U. S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear

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Speaker 1: a case that involves Section to thirty, and it's a

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Speaker 1: case that has a tragedy at the heart of it,

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Speaker 1: which always makes these issues more difficult to navigate because

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Speaker 1: you want to be respectful of the people who are

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Speaker 1: affected by said tragedy. So in a U. S citizen

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Speaker 1: named No. M. A. Gonzalez was killed in Paris during

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Speaker 1: an Islamic State group attack. Her family sued Google. Uh really,

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Speaker 1: you know YouTube's arm of Google or YouTube's arm of Alphabet,

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Speaker 1: for Gonzalez's death due to YouTube's recommendation algorithm. The family's

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Speaker 1: argument is that YouTube's algorithm promoted videos the aim to

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Speaker 1: push people to extremist perspectives and that as such, YouTube

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Speaker 1: and by extension, Alphabet should be held accountable for being

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Speaker 1: part of what amounts to overall recruitment strategy. The case

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Speaker 1: Ninth Circuit and they found that Section to thirty provides

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Speaker 1: protection to YouTube against the charges. So the family has

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Speaker 1: then pushed the matter up to the Supreme Court, which

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Speaker 1: did decide to hear the case. You know, Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: is not required to hear cases. It gets submissions and

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Speaker 1: potentially the Court could strike down Section to thirty UH,

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Speaker 1: flurry of court cases that would originate from all sides

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Speaker 1: because this is section is one of those policies that

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Speaker 1: though for very different reasons. And I'm not saying that

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Speaker 1: to why Section two thirty UH is dangerous. Both sides

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Speaker 1: Maybe it just finds its section to thirty is perfectly cromulent.

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Speaker 1: the United States Federal Communications Commission has brought the hammer

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Speaker 1: down on some telecommunications companies. Now. This has to do

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Speaker 1: with the anti robo call initiative that launched back in

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Speaker 1: twenty so. The FCC required all telecommunications companies in the

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Speaker 1: voice service carriers in the US that have failed to

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Speaker 1: FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosen Worseel says that those companies will

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Speaker 1: a CABUS that's a k A B I S cloud

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Speaker 1: for global you see Horizon Technology Group, Morse Communications, Sharon

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Speaker 1: Telephone Company, and Southwest Arkansas Telecommunications and Technology. The clock

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Speaker 1: experience a significant decrease in robo calls. Another US agency

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Speaker 1: In fact, it's kind of its purpose sys to manipulate

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Speaker 1: as if they're watching a show, but that show itself

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Speaker 1: this show likely already know that I am something of

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Speaker 1: a metaverse skeptic. I have not kept my opinions about

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Speaker 1: the metaverse very you know, private, But in an interview

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Speaker 1: not to say that n f t S won't have

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Speaker 1: definitely raises concerns. Now Here's the nice thing. If I

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Speaker 1: seems wild, but these are interesting times. That wraps it

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