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  • SCOTUS Appears Reluctant to Overturn Section 230

    SCOTUS Appears Reluctant to Overturn Section 230

    The US Supreme Court appears reluctant to overturn Section 230, setting up a major win for tech firms and online platforms.

    Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects online companies from legal fallout for content posted by users on their platforms. The law is what shields Twitter, Facebook, and other from being legally liable, regardless of the kind of content their users post.

    In recent years, Section 230 has come under attack, with lawmakers and regulators on both sides of the aisle looking to see its protections repealed, or at least scaled back.

    SCOTUS is considering the first significant challenge to the law, a case brought by the family of Nohemi Gonzalez, one of the victims of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. The case alleges that Google was partially responsible for the radicalization of the perpetrators by algorithmically pushing Islamic State videos to interested parties.

    According to The New York Times, the justices appeared unconvinced that fundamentally crippling how internet platforms recommend information will solve anything.

    “If you’re interested in cooking,” Justice Clarence Thomas said, “you don’t want thumbnails on light jazz.” He later added, “I see these as suggestions and not really recommendations because they don’t really comment on them.”

    Meanwhile, Google’s lawyer argued that repealing Section 230 would basically break the internet, causing it devolve into super-moderated zones that border on censorship, or lawless zones that are “a horror show.”

    Given how important Section 230 is, there’s sure to be people upset on both sides, regardless of how the court rules.

  • Nohemi Gonzalez, U.S. Student Killed In Paris, Remembered As a ‘Beautiful Soul’

    Nohemi Gonzalez, the U.S. student killed in the Paris attack, was remembered by hundreds Sunday as a “beautiful soul.”

    Gonzalez was a 23-year-old Cal State Long Beach who had moved temporarily to Paris to study industrial design as an exchange student.

    Unfortunately, she was one of 18 killed Friday at a sidewalk bistro in Paris, where she and three friends were enjoying dinner. In total 129 were killed in the terrorist attack that stunned the world.

    On Sunday, hundreds gathered at the campus to mourn her death and remember her spirit, described as all at once creative, intelligent, observant and, befitting a designer, a bit playful.

    “Nohemi possessed a character that was truly rare,” Martin Herman, chairman of the university’s design department, told the crowd in the student union.

    “What I saw in her was a beautiful soul who practiced goodness and compassion in her friendships and relationships with others. She exuded such energy and enthusiasm and infused the entire department with these same qualities by virtue of her presence.”

    Beatriz Gonzalez, the mother of Nohemi, told the Los Angeles Times earlier in the day that her daughter was independent and was determined to carve out her own path.

    The family struggled financially and during her undergraduate studies, Beatriz said, her daughter balanced her classwork with two jobs, one at the Armani Exchange in a Cerritos shopping mall and another at her college’s laboratory.

    “She used to work all the time,” her mother said.

    Beatrice last time she saw her daughter was Sept. 1, the day she boarded a flight for Paris. She learned of her daughter’s death through a friend of a friend, reports the Times.

    Many friends and instructors spoke about the life of Nohemi Gonzalez, including her boyfriend of nearly four years, Tim Mraz, who sobbed as he recalled how they met as teaching assistants in shop class.

    “She ran that place, man, she owned it,” Mraz said. “She was first one in, last one out; there all night.”

    Visibly upset, Mraz thanked classmates, friends and the community for support before adding that she may be gone, but never forgotten.

    “She’ll always be with us,” Mraz said. “She’ll still be roaming these halls, like she always does.”

  • Nohemi Gonzalez: California Student Studying in Paris Killed in Terror Attacks

    Nohemi Gonzalez was one of the many people killed in the terror attacks in Paris on Friday. A student at California State University, Long Beach, Gonzalez was studying design for a semester just outside the city. She was in a Paris restaurant when she died.

    Jane Close Conoley is the university’s president. She issued a statement regarding Nohemi Gonzalez’s death.

    “I’m deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Long Beach State University student Nohemi Gonzalez,” she said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends during this sad time.”

    Nohemi Gonzales hails from El Monte, located in Southern California. She was a junior at the university.

    “I feel lost, sadness, and…It was my only daughter,” Beatrice Gonzalez, the mother of Nohemi Gonzalez told ABC affiliate KABC.

    The last time Mrs. Gonzalez spoke to Nohemi was on Wednesday. On Friday, the FBI came to her home near El Monte to tell her her daughter had been among the victims of the Paris attacks.

    At 4 p.m. PT on Sunday, a vigil is being held to honor the slain student, as well as all others killed or wounded in the Paris attacks.

    Several sites around Paris were targeted on Friday by bombers and gunman in coordinated attacks that left 129 dead. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

    Prayers are being said by people around the world for all of the victims in the Paris terror attacks. Nohemi Gonzalez and her family are no doubt in many of those prayers.