Despite its two billion monthly users, Google-owned YouTube 'remains a private forum, not a public forum subject to judicial scrutiny under the First Amendment', the court found. — AFP
LOS ANGELES: Tech giants including Google are free to censor content as they wish, a US court ruled on Feb 26, in a landmark freedom-of-speech case concerning private Internet platforms.
The decision by San Francisco's Ninth Circuit appeals court rejected a conservative news outlet's claims that YouTube had breached the First Amendment by censoring its content.
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