Laws in Florida and Texas were designed to restrict big tech’s power over alleged bias towards conservative speech
The US supreme court on Monday threw out judicial decisions involving challenges to Republican-backed laws in Florida and Texas that restricted the power of social media companies to remove or down-rank objectionable content.
The justices directed lower appeals courts to reconsider a pair of decisions regarding these 2021 laws authorizing the states to regulate the content-moderation practices of large social media platforms. Tech industry trade groups had challenged the two laws under the US constitution’s first amendment limits on the government’s ability to restrict speech. The ruling came on the final day of the supreme court’s term that began in October.