Big Tech Appeals Casino App Ruling: 'Grave Harm to the Internet Economy.'
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Two months after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to loosen legal protections afforded tech companies, the immunity law is back before a federal appeals court.
On Monday, Apple, Google and Facebook’s Meta Platforms Inc. asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to reverse a 2022 decision concluding that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act did not protect them from lawsuits alleging their casino-style apps violated state gambling laws. The appeal comes soon after the Supreme Court on May 18 refused to tweak that same 1996 law, which provides strong immunity to tech firms from the acts of third parties, like content providers.
