Backpage.com, the nation’s second-largest online classified ad website, on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a congressional subpoena that demands business information about how the company polices third-party content.
“This case highlights a disturbing—and growing—trend of government actors issuing blunderbuss demands for documents to online publishers of content created by third parties (such as classified ads) in a manner that chills First Amendment rights,” Davis Wright Tremaine’s Robert Corn-Revere wrote for Backpage chief executive Carl Ferrer.
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