Social Media Case Reinvigorates Debate Over Internet Fairness | RealClearPolitics
The plaintiff s brief in the major Supreme Court free speech case Netchoice v. Paxton has now been filed. If wisdom or fairness carry the day, the large social media sites will lose their appeal and will not be able to block the American public s full access to news and opinions in future election seasons.
In the Paxton case, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas law that would prevent the largest social media sites such as X, YouTube, and Facebook from censoring messages that would otherwise be legal and acceptable in any normal public forum. The law essentially requires social media to allow access to all political messages and viewpoints the way a telephone company must carry all messages and viewpoints.
Netchoice, as the trade association for the sites, has gone to the Supreme Court to overturn the Texas statute and regain the unbridled power of censorship for the social media s private sector owners. Texas will be filing its own reply in January 2024 and the Court will decide the case soon after.
See my post above re: Gandalf and Frodo.