SCOTUS: Moody v NetChoice (NetChoice v Paxon) - internet content moderation v first amendment

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The Supreme Court will hear two cases Monday on laws passed in Florida and Texas that target purported “censorship” by social media companies—which could broadly impact how social media giants can be regulated and what information users see online, depending on how the court rules.

The court will hear two cases, Moody v. Netchoice LLC and Netchoice LLC v. Paxton, in which Netchoice—a lobbying group representing social media companies—is challenging social media laws in Florida and Texas, respectively.

The Florida law, which an appeals court struck down as unconstitutional, fines social media companies up to $250,000 per day if they “willfully deplatform” political candidates by banning them or suspending them for more than two weeks, and prohibits banning “journalistic enterprises” for their content.

Texas’ law, which a different appeals court upheld, bans social media platforms from censoring users based on their “viewpoints,” requiring companies to disclose how they moderate content, explain to users why their content was removed and establish a complaint process for users to protest either content on the site or content moderation decisions.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/new...ip-laws-today-here-s-what-to-know/ar-BB1iU6KT

 

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Briefs were submitted to the Court by the respective States, NetChoice, and other parties either in favor of the States or NetChoice, or neither party. In order to help Tech Policy Press readers better understand what arguments are being made by the amici, we put together brief summaries of them. These summaries are intended to offer the broad contours of each brief, and thus do not always contain every argument contained within them. If the reader wants a complete version of any one brief, the link to the document is provided in the text.
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More (Cato & EFF among others wrote in support of NetChoice):

Review of Amicus Briefs Filed in NetChoice Cases Before the Supreme Court | TechPolicy.Press

Summaries of key legal arguments made by dozens of civil society groups, trade associations, companies, and individual experts.

www.techpolicy.press