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SCOTUS says content moderation protected by First Amendment


Supreme Court Clarifies First Amendment and Standing Standards ...

Social media companies have long moderated the type of content that appears on a person's home page by, for instance, deleting explicit posts or ...

SCOTUS says content moderation protected by First Amendment

The US Supreme Court ruled in NetChoice v. Paxton and Moody v. NetChoice that Florida and Texas laws restricting the right of online platforms to moderate ...

Ruling boosts social media free speech protections, some say

The Supreme Court's decision on social media content moderation could expand protections for tech platforms under the First Amendment.

Supreme Court Finds That Internet Platforms Have Free Speech ...

The Court held that social media platforms, as private parties, have First Amendment rights, separate from their users. They are free to moderate users' ...

Supreme Court's Message in First Amendment Case: Tech Is Free to ...

The court held that content moderation policies reflect the constitutionally protected editorial choices of the platforms, at least regarding ...

22-277 Moody v. NetChoice, LLC (07/01/2024) - Supreme Court

on content moderation trigger First Amendment scrutiny under this. Court's cases protecting “editorial discretion.” 34 F. 4th 1196, 1209 ...

The First Amendment and Platform Content Moderation

The Supreme Court ruling emphasizes that legislative intent cannot undermine First Amendment protections. The government cannot interfere with ...

Justices side with Biden over government's influence on social ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit seeking to limit the government's ability to communicate with social media companies about their content ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Supreme Court Suspicious of State Social Media Regulation

The US Supreme Court this summer stymied significant state regulation of social media platforms, stating that content moderation rules raised substantial ...

Supreme Court Social Media Case Protects Content Moderation

The Supreme Court Seemed to Punt on Social Media and the First Amendment. It Actually Protected Content Moderation. · On one level, the Supreme ...

Supreme Court puts content moderation on solid legal ground

“But the way the First Amendment achieves that goal is by preventing the government from 'tilt[ing] public debate in a preferred direction,' not ...

Supreme Court reaffirms press precedent in social media cases

The Supreme Court's decision in the social media content moderation cases reaffirms important First Amendment protections for the press. File: ...

Supreme Court: Content moderation on social protected by the First ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that social media platforms' content moderation policies can be protected by the First Amendment, vacating prior ...

Supreme Court protects the future of content moderation - The Verge

Under the new Supreme Court decision, content moderation is generally protected by the First Amendment. ... SCOTUS said the lower courts ...

Social Media Moderation Is Speech, Says Supreme Court

The law then prevents exactly the kind of editorial judgments this Court has previously held to receive First Amendment protection. It prevents ...

NetChoice explained: How SCOTUS wisely avoided two extreme ...

Decision · First, the Court explained “the First Amendment offers protection when an entity engaging in expressive activity, including compiling ...

SCOTUS Remands Social Media Content Moderation Cases and ...

The First Amendment still imposes some limits on the government's ability to control what content appears online.

Supreme Court's Social Media Ruling Tilts Toward Free Speech

The heart of the issue for the majority is that moderating, curating, and editorializing content is fully protected by the First Amendment.