The MTA is calling on social media platforms to not post videos of people doing what's known as subway surfing.
15-year-old was killed on MondayMTA chairman Janno Lieber told WNYC Radio Wednesday morning that, "It's really a question of will and intention, and a sense of doing the right thing. I'm not interested in having a constitutional law debate. I am interested in protecting new york city kids who for whatever reason, are encouraged, incentivized to do crazy stuff.
This comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is currently hearing two cases regarding social media accountability. In one, the family of a young student killed in the 2015 ISIS Paris attack is accusing Google-owned YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, among other social media outlets, of aiding and abetting terrorism by allowing ISIS videos to be posted.
At the center of the arguments is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provides tech companies a legal shield over what their users post online.Nina Brown, a professor of Media and First Amendment law at Syracuse University, tells FOX 5 News that "the broad immunity that Section 230 provides social platforms has been something that both conservatives, liberals, everybody in between has had a gripe with.
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