Another SCOTUS explainer today, this time breaking down some of the nuance in yesterday's oral arguments and the issues in contention around free speech and social media.
Can a private company grow big enough as a public platform that it loses its right to curate user experience through de-platforming certain content? Does it have First Amendment protections? Is it sheltered by Section 230?
And if not, what will happen to the many businesses currently operating online?
https://onlysky.media/mclark/social-media-free-speech-and-scotus/
@MLClark That was an informative summary of a very complicated situation.
There seems to be very little concern at the highest levels of gov't in Texas (and elsewhere) for overbreadth. Especially republican politicians are in the habit of making partisan laws that set up bizarre and dangerous legal paradoxes.
What the legislature in Texas fails to understand is that when it makes overly broad rulings, it leaves the easiest (maybe only?) option for SM corps to exclude Texas.
@MLClark
Hm.
Can a billionaire be rich enough that he should get no First Amendment protections, then?