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On a technicality, Supreme Court overturns ruling of mass censorship by Biden administration

1 year 4 months ago
Remember that federal judge who banned the Biden administration from contact with social media? He wrote a humdinger of an opinion claiming the government had pressured Facebook and others to censor right-wing views: Virtually all of the free speech suppressed was “conservative” free speech.... The Plaintiffs have outlined a federal regime of mass censorship.... The ...continue reading "On a technicality, Supreme Court overturns ruling of mass censorship by Biden administration"
Kevin Drum

Supreme Court Sees Through The Nonsense, Rejects Lower Courts’ Rulings Regarding Social Media Moderation

1 year 4 months ago
Actual free speech survives for yet another day as the Supreme Court has rejected a bunch of fantasy-land nonsense in a case in which Trumpists were absolutely positive they’d caught the government “censoring” speech on social media. But every time we looked at the actual evidence, all we saw was “lizard people” level conspiracy theory […]
Mike Masnick

SCOTUS rejects suit alleging federal government bullied social media into censoring content

1 year 4 months ago
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected arguments by Missouri and Louisiana that the federal government violated the First Amendment in its efforts to combat false, misleading and dangerous information online. In a 6-3 decision written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court held that neither the states nor seven individuals who were co-plaintiffs in the case were able to demonstrate any harm or substantial risk that they will suffer an injury in the future. Therefore, they do not have legal…
Jason Hancock