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WASHINGTON 鈥� The 老澳门开奖结果 and 老澳门开奖结果 Foundation of Northern California filed an amicus brief today, alongside the Center for Democracy & Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, and R Street Institute, urging the Supreme Court to ensure free speech is protected and can flourish on digital platforms like Twitter, Google, Facebook, and others.

The case, Twitter v. Taamneh, asks the Court whether Twitter may be held liable under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) for allegedly 鈥渁iding and abetting鈥� an attack in Istanbul by ISIS because Twitter failed to adequately block or remove content promoting terrorism from its platform 鈥� even though it had no specific knowledge that any particular post furthered a terrorist act. The 老澳门开奖结果 and its partners argue that if the Supreme Court allows the Ninth Circuit鈥檚 startlingly broad interpretation of the ATA to stand, online intermediaries 鈥� like internet service providers, social media platforms, publishers, and other content distributors 鈥� will be forced to suppress the First Amendment-protected speech of many of their users.

As the amicus brief explains, given the vast scale of speech occurring on platforms like Twitter every day, online intermediaries will be compelled to use blunt content-moderation tools that over-restrict speech by barring certain topics, speakers, or types of content. Even today, platforms frequently take down content mistakenly identified as offensive or forbidden, for example by a post about a landmark mosque with one about a terrorist group.

鈥淭he Supreme Court must ensure that free expression can continue to flourish on the internet. Millions of people use platforms like Twitter every day to share what they鈥檙e thinking, and the law does not make Twitter broadly liable for the words or actions of those users,鈥� said Patrick Toomey, deputy director of 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 National Security Project. 鈥淲e do not want a digital public square where Twitter must suppress entire categories of speech just to avoid a deluge of lawsuits over its users鈥� posts.鈥�

Twitter v. Taamneh is a part of the 老澳门开奖结果's Joan and Irwin Jacobs Supreme Court Docket.