Social-media shares have taken a beating this 12 months, nevertheless it’s nothing in contrast with the smack-down their firms have not too long ago acquired in court docket. “We reject the concept that firms have a freewheeling First Modification proper to censor what individuals say,” the Fifth U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals declared in its Sept. 16 determination upholding Texas’s anticensorship regulation.
The authorized combat over whether or not states can limit such conduct may quickly be headed to the Supreme Courtroom, as Florida final week appealed an eleventh Circuit ruling that struck down its anticensorship regulation.
