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I’m celebrating my independence from waking up every morning to see if the Supreme Court has finally ruled in the NetChoice cases. Send news tips and fireworks emojis to: [email protected]. Supreme Court says content moderation is speech At first glance,
Texas conservatives have steadily waged a legal battle aimed at limiting the federal government's ability to say how businesses and individuals manage their land, sell guns or pollute the atmosphere.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped making a decision on the legality of Republican-backed laws in Florida and Texas designed to restrict the power of social media companies to curb content that the platforms deem objectionable.
The Supreme Court on Monday sent back to a lower court a pair of laws from Texas and Florida that seeks to put restrictions on a social media company's ability to moderate content on its own platforms.
The Supreme Court kept a hold on efforts in Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social-media platforms regulate content posted by their users, returning the cases to lower courts.
The US Supreme Court is pushing back to lower courts two key cases looking how social media companies moderate content on their platforms and how states respond to that. The rulings return the cases to courts in Texas and Florida,
The Supreme Court sent social-media-moderation cases back to lower courts in Texas and Florida in a victory for tech giants.
While the justices didn’t rule on the merits of the cases, they agreed that government efforts to control online speech represent a danger to free expression. In a unanimous opinion Monday, the Supreme Court declined to rule on the constitutionality of laws in Florida and Texas that would require online platforms to publish political speech they would otherwise remove.
The Supreme Court kicked two cases challenging social media moderation laws in Florida and Texas back to lower courts
In the NetChoice decisions from the Supreme Court, the underlying issues are truly about the First Amendment rights of private businesses, not a special privilege of certain tech companies, writes Jennifer Huddleston.
The Supreme Court on Monday kept on hold efforts by Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users in a ruling that strongly defended the platforms' free speech rights.
The justices unanimously returned two cases, which concerned state laws that supporters said were aimed at “Silicon Valley censorship,” to lower courts. Critics had said the laws violated the sites’ First Amendment rights.
While all eyes in the tech industry were on the Supreme Court when it issued its ruling in two important online speech cases, another tech regulation was dealt a blow in a different federal court.
Two state laws from Texas and Florida, that could upend the way social media companies handle content moderation are still up in the air. The Supreme Court sent the challenges back to lower courts, which vacates previous rulings.
The U.S. Supreme Court pushed lower courts to take another look at two laws in Florida and Texas that would have stopped social media companies from removing extremist content or accounts in a decision Monday that’s widely being regarded as reasonable.
The Supreme Court isn’t going to rule on a case that could fundamentally change how we think about the First Amendment as it applies to the internet. But within its indecision came one decision: Social media has at least some First Amendment protections,
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The Supreme Court on Monday kept on hold efforts by Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users in a ruling that strongly defended the platforms' free speech rights.
By shifting regulatory power away from government agencies and to the courts, recent SCOTUS rulings may be a boon for a tech industry under fire.
The Supreme Court has indicated it will take up a case next term involving the adult entertainment industry’s challenge to a Texas law requiring pornography sites to implement age-verification measures.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated conflicting rulings in challenges to Florida and Texas laws aimed at placing restrictions on social media platforms, directing appeals courts to reconsider the decisions.
The US Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a ruling on the constitutional validity of a pair of Republican-backed laws that imposed restrictions on social media content moderation, sending legal challenges backed by tech platforms to lower courts for review.
The U.S. Supreme Court has reignited the legal battle over controversial Florida and Texas laws aimed at placing restrictions on social media platforms, sending the cases back to appeals courts for reconsideration.
The ruling was announced on the Supreme Court’s final day of term. Court justices asked lower appeals courts to reassess their decision on the laws that would permit states to regulate the way that social media platforms administer their content.
The U S Supreme Court has declined to rule on state laws holding social media platforms accountable for censoring political or unpopular opinions from users
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered additional trial court proceedings in a pair of cases challenging the constitutionality of laws that force social media companies to carry messages they disagree with,
The US Supreme Court has avoided making a final decision on challenges to the Texas and Florida social media laws, but the majority opinion written by Justice Elena Kagan criticized the Texas law and made it clear that content moderation is protected by the First Amendment.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday has put Florida and Texas social media laws on hold, sending both cases back to lower cases for more review.
The US Supreme Court sent a pair of cases about state laws that restrict social media content curation back to lower courts, ruling there isn’t enough information about how the laws apply to Meta Platforms Inc.
The court ordered more proceedings on laws in Texas and Florida that seek to regulate online platforms’ content-moderation practices.
The lesson of Murthy v. Missouri and the Supreme Court’s decision is censorship is the symptom. The root cause is government overreach.
Society / No, that is not a typo. Amid the deluge of doom and disaster this week, the high court—at least for the moment—got social media regulation right. Zephyr Teachout On Monday, the Supreme Court decided not to decide two big cases about social media laws from Texas and Florida.
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The Supreme Court will not consider a challenge to the scope of a federal law immunizing tech companies from liability for their users’ content brought by a teenager who was allegedly groomed by a teacher on Snapchat.
A coalition of internet companies, NetChoice, challenged the laws claiming they violated the First Amendment. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11 th Circuit put key parts of the Florida law on hold but the 5 th Circuit allowed Texas’ law to go forward pending further proceedings—an action the Supreme Court reversed as it considered these issues.
The Supreme Court is keeping a hold on efforts in Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated conflicting rulings in challenges to Florida and Texas laws aimed at placing restrictions on social-media platforms, directing appeals courts to reconsider the decisions.
The Supreme Court keeps on hold efforts in Texas and Florida to regulate social media platforms
The Supreme Court on Monday sent two First Amendment cases over social media content moderation back to lower courts.
The Supreme Court today avoided making a decision in two closely watched social media moderation cases and instead sent them back to the lower courts for review. The justices issued the decision unanimously.
The U.S. Supreme Court is punting two Texas and Florida cases about content moderation requirements on social media back to the lower courts, after unanimously ruling Monday that lower courts hadn’t properly evaluated the issue before.
The tech industry saw the measured ruling as a win. Attorney General Ken Paxton vowed to continue defending the law.
Lower courts must better define the stakes of free-speech issues in the disputes, the high court decided. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sent back to lower courts Monday two challenges to Florida and Texas laws regulating social media platforms,
NetChoice, addressing challenges to Texas and Florida laws severely limiting social media content moderation, the Supreme Court declined to issue a final ruling on the merits, for procedural reasons.