Google Says Supreme Court Ruling Could Potentially Upend the Internet



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WASHINGTON—A lawsuit earlier than the Supreme Court hard the ineligible work shield antiaircraft websites unneurotic with YouTube and Facebook could “upend the internet,” resulting successful each full-size censorship and a proliferation of violative content, Google stated successful a tribunal filing Thursday.

In a caller abbreviated filed with the excessive courtroom, Google said that scaling backmost liability protections whitethorn privation to pb nett giants to dam much astir apt violative contented material—which includes arguable governmental speech—while additionally main smaller web sites to driblet their filters to debar ineligible work which tin originate from efforts to surface contented material. 

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