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Law’s Raymond Ku explains Supreme Court’s rules on legal protection for tech companies

How a Supreme Court ruling could radically change the internet

LifewireRaymond Ku, the Laura B. Chisolm Distinguished Research Scholar and professor at the School of Law, discussed an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case that could decide how much legal protection tech companies have from content posted on their services. “If the Supreme Court rules against tech companies, it will end the internet as we know it,” he said. “I am not one for histrionics, but imposing liability on search engines, social media, or other communications services for the speech of their users would dramatically limit the information and communications we could share and receive.”