Taylor Lorenz

At the trial, I mean, what we saw was like, what I saw was this girl, first of all, going through, you know,

that being, being put through hell again, where you imagine having growing up in this horrible and then having your therapist testified to the embarrassing stuff that you said.

And ironically, she's pursuing a career as a social media manager right now, um, because she really did fall in love with Instagram and making these video fan edits.

Exactly.

So they were arguing that, you know, she wouldn't have had, you know, that being on social media contributed to her mental health problems.

Now, it's important to remember, in this lawsuit, like, what the jury found wasn't that it...

was totally responsible.

But if it even contributed point zero zero zero, like one percent to her mental health, that could be found like, you know, that was that was sort of like the questions that the jurors were given.

And what they found was or what they determined.

Again, these are just nine random people, right, that said through this emotional trial.

And they found, yes,

you know great that girl got you know six million they were awarded six million dollars um i think what's really scary is that this girl is just being exploited over and over and over again by like you know multiple systems here but the people that that are involved in this trial that put forward that put her forward um are this reactionary political movement

And their goal is to dismantle something called Section 230, which is the really tiny piece of Internet law that guarantees user generated content and free speech online.

This case was not just notable because they were like putting Mark Zuckerberg on trial or whatever.

It was notable because it established this really novel legal precedent that will be used to enact mass censorship and surveillance online.

And they do it, you know, they did it through this like kind of using this girl's case.

I would argue, honestly, that girl, I think the mother should have been on trial personally.

But, you know, we have Mark Zuckerberg instead.

They're using it.

Yeah.