EFF to 9th Circuit (Again): App Stores Shouldn’t Be Liable for Processing Payments for User Content
Posted by PrivacyWire
EFF filed an amicus brief for the second time in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, arguing that allowing cases against the Apple, Google, and Facebook app stores to proceed could lead to greater censorship of users’ online speech. Our brief argues that the app stores should not lose S
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tomspark wrote:
The EFF's right here. If app stores become liable for every transaction that touches potentially infringing content, they'll just nuke anything remotely risky — and that means killing a lot of legitimate speech in the process. The liability bar needs to stay high or we end up with even worse gatekeeping than we already have.