Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, and Center for Democracy & Technology, Amici Curiae
Jonathan Sherman, Counsel of Record
The amici in this brief are nonprofit groups that focus on protecting civil liberties in the electronic world and promoting a free and open Internet. Jonathan Sherman is partner with the law firm Boies, Schiller, Flexner, where he specializes in commercial and First Amendment law. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioner as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court December 22, 2016. Twenty years ago, this Court recognized the profoundly important role of Internet communication in fostering the free speech values at the very heart of the First Amendment. Even that long ago, Reno v. ACLU…