The Supreme Court is scared it’s going to break the internet

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the majority opinion tossing out a billion-dollar verdict against an internet service provider in the case Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Supreme Court tossed out a billion-dollar verdict against an internet service provider (ISP) on Wednesday, in a closely watched case that could have severely damaged many Americans’ access to the internet if it had gone the other way. 

Wednesday’s decision in Cox Communications v.