Supreme Court Hands Down SHOCKINGLY Controversial Ruling Against Terror Attack Victims' Families

The ruling favored three Big Tech companies that the families had sued for allowing videos of terrorist attacks on their platforms.

The Court ruled 9-0 that the families had failed to state a viable claim under an Anti-Terrorism Act. According to the Washington Times, the named defendant in the lawsuit was Twitter.

The plaintiff argued that by allowing videos from ISIS to be uploaded and remain on Twitter, Google, and Facebook, the tech companies were aiding the terrorist organization.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the judgment for the Court, stating: “Plaintiff’s allegations are insufficient to establish that these defendants aided and abetted ISIS in carrying out the relevant attack.”

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A similar case weighed in on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. This is the legal liability shield that the Big Tech companies rely on related to the content uploaded to their platforms. It has protected them from legal action stating that they were promoting algorithms linked to ISIS terrorist organizations.

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The Supreme Court also issued a 9-0 decision against the families in that case. The Court also reasoned that the family had not submitted a viable claim against Google, the defendant in that case.

In the case that was directly against Twitter, the family asserted that the company had not done enough to prevent terrorists from using their platform. The surviving family of a victim of terrorism stated that Twitter was too open to the possibility of content from terrorist groups being uploaded onto its systems.

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The company argued that it could not be held liable for the general use of its platform. In other words, they cannot be legally liable for user content.

This case was the second since February the Supreme Court heard about social media giants’ liability for terrorist content ending up on their platforms. It appears that the Court is not ready to budge on its position that the tech companies cannot be held liable in these situations.