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Supreme Court weighs free speech challenges to GOP-backed social media restrictions (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Laws enacted in Texas and Florida would restrict social media companies' ability to decide what user content they wish to publish.

The Supreme Court on Monday will consider whether to uphold Republican-backed laws in Florida and Texas that seek to impose restrictions on the ability of social media companies to moderate content based on the claim that they disfavor conservative speech.

Platforms like Facebook and YouTube, represented by trade groups NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association, known as CCIA, say that both laws infringe upon the free speech rights of companies under the Constitution’s First Amendment by restricting their ability to choose what content they wish to publish on their platforms.

Various other tech companies that routinely moderate user content oppose the laws, including Reddit, Discord and Yelp.

The laws were enacted by the Republican-led states in 2021 after Twitter, Facebook and others banned former President Donald Trump after his effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election ended in his supporters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Once again 'small government' conservatives decide they want to restrict constitutional freedoms. That said, I'm not sure that going after big corporations is their best move.

Also, if social media can't moderate its content, how do they stop child porn from being posted? I'm guessing SCOTUS hasn't even considered that.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is pretty crazy that the gop thinks it can limit what companies decide to show on their websites based on the first amendment.

It’s like they are all Randy Marsh in his underwear in the middle of the street going, “I thought this was America!”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

These are the same people who think that freedom of religion means they can force everyone to follow an explicitly Christian set of morals. Their view on freedom of speech is not surprising.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not that they can't moderate their content at all, it's specific restrictions on how they can moderate. For example, not being allowed to ban someone who's running for political office, i.e. they're still salty about trump getting banned from twitter for a bit.

But yeah, it's fun to watch the right disregard their professed values whenever it suits them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not that they can't moderate their content at all, it's specific restrictions on how they can moderate.

The other part of that is the Venn diagram of "hate speech" and "conservative voices" are one, big-ass circle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, that too, and there's also a fair bit of overlap between "conservative voices" and "factually incorrect". Vaccines come to mind as a topic where conservatives would benefit from platforms not being allowed to weigh in on what's accurate information and what's made up nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think they will have no choice but to rule against these states even if they might want to allow this particular thing in this particular case, they have to consider what it means in the broader legal framework - including as regards CP.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I do not count on them to have thought this through properly.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ones a cult member, one rapes women and stuffs drugs up his ass, one consults witch trial rulings, one thinks racism doesn't exist anymore, one uses the fake concept of textualism to vote along with the others, and the last is full on corruption dialed to 11 who hates everyone and everything associated with his race.

Yeah, they might not think this one through.