The Supreme Court hears arguments for two cases that could reshape the future of the internet
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Justice Thomas digs up PageNet and the era of ubiquitous pagers.
Edwin Kneedler, on behalf of the government, faces a theoretical question on pager companies providing services to terrorists. It’s not clear how this act of technological paleontology from Thomas will provide a comparison to Twitter. But it’s interesting by virtue of the fact that while pagers could be used directly to plan an attack, pager companies probably knew way less about their customers’ beliefs and actions than a modern social platform.
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