Conversations are heating up about whether websites should be liable for the content their users post.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court dismissed a case that was widely regarded as a major challenge to the legal shield Section 230. Section 230 is a part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that protects websites from being liable for the content that third parties generate and post on their site.  

The lawsuit that was recently dismissed alleged that Twitter and Google abided terrorists who used their sites. The court dismissed this as having no valid claims.

Opponents to this dismissal argue that the protections laid in the mid-'90s are not suitable for the changed landscape of the internet today.  

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