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The Supreme Court will hear another social media censorship case in 2024, this one originally filed by Louisiana's Attorney General Jeff Landry and Missouri’s Attorney General (now Senator) Eric ...
The Supreme Court on Monday appeared deeply skeptical of arguments by two conservative states that the First Amendment bars the government from pressuring social media platforms to remove online ...
On Monday, during oral arguments at the Supreme Court, most of the justices voiced some support for governments and researchers working with social media platforms on content moderation ...
Currently, social media censorship appears primarily as a way to restrict Internet users' ability to organize protests. For the Chinese government, seeing citizens unhappy with local governance is beneficial as state and national leaders can replace unpopular officials.
“Social media platforms have a First Amendment right to moderate content disseminated on their platforms,” the judge wrote. But then, in federal appeals courts, the two laws took different paths.
Louisiana case acusing Biden of illegal social media censorship takes Supreme Court stage ... justices heard arguments about whether the Biden administration went too far in pressuring social ...
Following this, many conservative speakers and politicians claimed the President was the target of organized social media censorship. [45] In the second impeachment of Donald Trump, his social media activity was presented as evidence by impeachment managers. [46]
Congress passed Section 230 as part of the Communications Decency Act in 1996, which offers interactive service providers such as social media platforms certain immunities from legal liability for content posted by their users, as well as a "Good Samaritan" clause for such providers to moderate content they deem "obscene, lewd, lascivious ...