The Supreme Court refused to take up a lawsuit on May 30 against Reddit over its alleged hosting of child pornography on the social media website.
The case is Doe v. Reddit Inc., court file 22-695. The Supreme Court dismissed the petition in an unsigned order. No justices dissented. The court did not explain its new decision.
The order came after the Supreme Court sidestepped a challenge on May 18 to Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act of 1996, which generally prevents internet platforms and internet service providers from being held liable for what users say on them. Big Tech and its supporters say the legal provision, sometimes called “the 26 words that created the internet,” has fostered a climate online in which free speech has flourished….