Twitter shouldn't be held liable for images of minors on network, ACLU, others tell US appeals court
( June 10, 2022, 21:32 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations told a US appeals court that online platforms like Twitter can't be held civilly liable for participating in a sex-trafficking venture without actual knowledge of sex trafficking occurring on their services. They urged the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to reverse an order that maintained claims against Twitter over images of minors posted to its network. “Given the scale of the speech they enable, imposing liability on online intermediaries on the basis of merely constructive knowledge would have disastrous consequences for users: Intermediaries would choose either to remove protected, societally beneficial content to avoid the threat of liability — thereby depleting the full scope of speech and information available to the public — or they would opt to remain willfully ignorant of content posted on their services to avoid having any possible awareness (and therefore arguably constructive knowledge) of illegal content appearing there—thereby foregoing content moderation on their sites,” they argued. See document below. ...
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