There was big news from the Supreme Court as they announced that they will hear two tech cases examining the immunity our big tech corporations received through Section 230.

I’m referring to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, passed at the dawn of the Internet Age to protect Google and Twitter and Facebook and YouTube from the consequences of the material they post, including even out there things like ISIS videos. 

Twitter and Google have been sued by victims of ISIS for the propagation of the terrorist group's propaganda. The terrorist group existed—romped indeed—until early into the Trump presidency when they were crushed out of existence. The devastation they left in their wake was appalling. 

But Section 230 is a shield. The big tech companies play the hand of the editor and publisher when and how they want. 

There is no liability for the awful propaganda of terrorist organizations left lying around on the web. Watch these cases. The simple point is this: 

Those who are accepting the protection of Section 230 should be understood to be agents of the government and therefore subject to First Amendment standards.