Hi all

Today, we joined an amicus brief filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Eric Goldman, Rebecca Tushnet, the Organization for Transformative Works, Engine, GitHub, Medium, Snap, and Yelp encouraging the California Court of Appeal to review the ruling of the trial court in Cross v. Facebook.

You can find our blogpost about it here. The EFF's blogpost is here.

Thanks for reading!

Best,

Jan

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Jan Gerlach <jgerlach@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Dear all

Some of you may have read about the case Cross v. Facebook, which is before the Court of Appeal for the State of California, First Appellate District. The case concerns the provision in the United States’ Communications Decency Act, Section 230 that protects online intermediaries from liability related to user-generated content. There are two good blog posts that explain the case here and here.

Section 230 immunity is an important cornerstone of the internet, and it's an important part of the legal background that allows the Wikimedia projects to operate neutrally. We are preparing to file an amicus brief in this case to educate the court about the importance of intermediary liability protections for freedom of expression and free knowledge.

We will keep you updated about this when we have more information to share.

Best,
Jan

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Jan Gerlach
Public Policy Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
jgerlach@wikimedia.org