This term, the Supreme Court will decide a cluster of cases — the most consequential in my 40-year career practicing First Amendment law — that will markedly shape the relationship between the government and social media.

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[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Pretty sure the real issue is literally nothing that he mentions in that post, but rather the fact that the government and social media companies created private servers where government officials could and did tell social media companies who and what to censor, in an end run around the 1st amendment. Obviously any judgment from SCOTUS that leaves this system in place would make a mockery of the law.

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The two most important cases, which the Supreme Court will hear on Monday, were brought by NetChoice, an internet industry group, after Florida and Texas passed laws regulating social media platforms’ content moderation practices.

Together they will determine who controls the levers of content moderation on platforms like Facebook and X: the platforms themselves or state government.

The NetChoice cases should be easy for the nine justices to decide — the power should remain with the platforms, and here’s why.

Online communication technologies may be a relatively recent phenomenon, but the basic issue underlying these cases has been around since our founding.

The Constitution’s Framers faced these same fundamental challenges when they adopted the First Amendment.

Unlike European governments, which reacted to the powerful new medium of the printing press by fashioning various ways to control and censor it, the United States became the first nation to embrace the technology as an essential component of its political system.

From the beginning, the press — the only private enterprise mentioned in the Constitution — was freed from government control in order to preserve personal and political freedom and hold the powerful accountable.

The internet and social media are no different.

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