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Political neutrality in content moderation compels private speech


Political neutrality in content moderation compels private speech

Several bills have been introduced to address this and mandate neutrality in moderation of content. The problem with this approach is that it will compel social ...

A First Amendment Argument Against Requiring Political Neutrality ...

The short but mighty provision ensures that tech companies can engage in socially beneficial content moderation (such as removing hate speech or ...

Competition and Content Moderation | Cato Institute

... political neutrality test. Government-compelled speech is not the way to ensure diverse viewpoints. Permitting websites to choose their own ...

Content Moderation at the Supreme Court: Free Speech On

Although large social-media platforms too often moderate with a censorial, left-wing bias, defending speech rights remains both legally and ...

A Framework for Nonpartisanship in Online Governance

Instead, it provides an example of a process that contains checks and balances to protect content moderation from political bias or partisanship. Other ...

Platforms Have First Amendment Right to Curate Speech, As We've ...

Also noteworthy is that in concluding that content moderation is protected First Amendment activity, the Supreme Court showed that it finally ...

Can the State Regulate Content Moderation? - Reason Magazine

Social media companies exercise "editorial control and judgment" in deciding which user content to allow and which content to remove.

Rappaport Forum talks First Amendment limits of content moderation ...

Keller warned that the end result might be less speech overall: “If a platform is trying to decide how to comply with the viewpoint neutrality ...

Why Moderating Content Actually Does More To Support ... - Techdirt.

... political neutrality test. Government-compelled speech is not the way to ensure diverse viewpoints. Permitting websites to choose their own ...

A Private-Public Forum: The Oxymoron of Free Speech on Social ...

Instead, States have attempted to enforce the ideals of free speech by regulating Platforms content moderation policies. ... The question remains ...

Supreme Court Finds First Amendment Barriers to TX and FL Social ...

A majority of Justices (five votes) agree that content moderation choices are protected speech under the First Amendment. But the nuances of a ...

Regulating Online Content Moderation - Georgetown Law

Frank Pasquale, Platform Neutrality: Enhancing Freedom of Expression in Spheres of Private ... content moderation standards may help to ensure meaningful speech ...

Why the Government Should Not Regulate Content Moderation of ...

The public and policymakers prefer private governance of speech. Those who wish to introduce new public regulation of social media must overcome ...

Content Moderation Is Not Synonymous With Censorship

Despite this issue, poor content moderation practices that do not suppress or prohibit speech are not akin to censorship, and bad faith claims ...

How to Address Political Speech on Social Media in the United States

The primary reason the debate over how to regulate large social media companies' content moderation policies and practices has become so ...

Yes, Section 230 Allows Social Media Platforms to Moderate ...

Some Republican lawmakers have attacked tech platforms for holding political biases and advocated for state-enforced “neutral moderation.” These ...

Supreme Court Oral Argument Preview: Social Media First ...

The Justice Department argued that blocking and removing content is protected First Amendment activity, this moderation is part of the platforms ...

The First Amendment Does Not Prohibit The Government From ...

... compel the speech of private actors. In Tornillo, the Court invalidated a state law requiring any newspaper that assailed a political ...

Reasoning about Political Bias in Content Moderation

content moderation that is politically neutral” (Hawley 2019). These ... moderation, such target variables can include hate speech, extreme videos, etc ...

How social media 'censorship' became a front line in the culture war

To liberals, that reinforced the link between online speech and real-world violence, making content moderation literally a matter of life and ...