The Supreme Court hears arguments for two cases that could reshape the future of the internet
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You wouldn’t download a sheep.
Twitter’s counsel, Seth Waxman, is up first in oral arguments. If his first performance is a preview of what’s to come, we’re going to hear a lot of weird metaphors about criminal activity. Waxman is clearly angling toward the idea that Twitter had to specifically know what criminals on the platform were going to do to be liable for their actions.
Justice Thomas and Waxman opened with dueling hypotheticals about respectively giving your friend a gun and breaking a padlock to steal your neighbor’s sheep. Sure.
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