Lawrence Hurley covers the Supreme Court for NBC News.
WASHINGTON — Justice Elena Kagan drew laughter in February when she remarked in court that she and her eight colleagues on the Supreme Court are not 'the nine greatest experts on the internet.' But that hasn't stopped the justices from taking up a new series of high-stakes cases on the role of social media in society, all of which raise different free speech questions and could have broad repercussions.
Earlier this year the court heard two other cases concerning Twitter and Google. Then, the court sidestepped a major ruling that could have limited the liability protections that platforms enjoy for content posted by users. Daphne Keller, an expert on internet law at Stanford Law School, said the justices in those earlier cases, as shown by Kagan's quip made at oral argument, realized they had taken up an issue that was 'frankly too complicated for their first foray into this area.
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