Category: Amicus Briefs

US Supreme Court Upholds Right of Websites to Moderate Content 

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In a decision on the NetChoice cases, the US Supreme Court upheld the rights of social media platforms to moderate content.

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Montana’s TikTok Ban: Breaking the Internet and Undermining Online Privacy 

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Asking TikTok, Google, and Apple to more intrusively track nearly every American with a cell phone, based on the possibility that a TikTok user might enter Montana, would be a significant invasion of privacy. And yet that is the likely outcome if Montana’s law SB 419 is allowed to take effect.  A law that claims […]

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Protection for Intermediaries Is Vital for the Internet in Mexico

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We often overlook the factors that enable the Internet to accommodate a wide range of applications, from real-time surgeries to viral memes, and individual expression. Some of those factors are technical and some are policy. A critical policy issue that has shaped the evolution of the Internet is the question: should websites and other online […]

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Nevada Wants to Reduce Online Protections for Children: All Internet Users Should Benefit from Strong Encryption

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Today we joined an effort to stop the State of Nevada from making it easier for children’s personal information to be obtained by child predators, criminal gangs, foreign nations, and others. The State of Nevada seems to think that children deserve less protection online. Under a misguided view of seeking to “protect” children, the State […]

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Can You Kick the Trolls Out Of Your Online Forum? U.S. Supreme Court to Decide

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Should the governments of Texas and Florida decide whether and how online discussion sites can moderate their posts? Let’s say you have an online community about the town you live in, and someone starts posting off-topic messages about some other town or city, should you be able to remove those messages? Or if you have […]

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