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For example, a social media platform may restrict speech that it considers to be hate speech more broadly than is required by US law, [107] and may restrict speech that it considers to be harassment and verbal abuse. Restriction of hate speech and harassment on social media is the subject of debate.
Nine new laws go into effect in Florida on the first day of 2025. Here's what's changing. Social media ban for kids, first responders harassment: these laws go into effect Jan. 1
Hate speech in the United States cannot be directly regulated by the government due to the fundamental right to freedom of speech protected by the Constitution. [1] While "hate speech" is not a legal term in the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that most of what would qualify as hate speech in other western countries is legally protected speech under the First Amendment.
Whether Section 230 protects social media firms from what their algorithms produce remains a question in case law. The Supreme Court considered this question in regard to terrorism content in the forementioned Gonzalez and Taamneh cases, but neither addressed if Section 230 protected social media firms for the product of their algorithms. [89]
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether state laws that seek to regulate Facebook, TikTok, X and other social media platforms violate the Constitution. The justices will review laws ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped making a decision on the legality of Republican-backed laws in Florida and Texas designed to restrict the power of social media ...
Harassment covers a wide range of behaviors of an offensive nature. It is commonly understood as behavior that demeans, humiliates, and intimidates a person, and it is characteristically identified by its unlikelihood in terms of social and moral reasonableness. In the legal sense, these are behaviors that appear to be disturbing, upsetting, or ...
The Supreme Court neither ruled for or against social media laws in Florida and Texas that prohibited moderation of politicians. Florida, Texas social media laws kicked back to lower courts by ...