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Missouri AG Thinks Supreme Court Ruling Lets Him Control Social Media Moderation (It Doesn’t)


Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey apparently thinks he gets to be editor-in-chief of every social media platform. In his latest attack on free speech rights, Bailey has announced a “fir…

But this Court has many times held, in many contexts, that it is no job for government to decide what counts as the right balance of private expression—to “un-bias” what it thinks biased, rather than to leave such judgments to speakers and their audiences. They even added a footnote specifically addressing attempts to twist competition law precedent (like Turner, which conservatives have long despised) to justify content moderation mandates: Turner did indeed hold that the FCC’s must-carry provisions, requiring cable operators to give some of their channel space to local broadcast stations, passed First Amendment muster.

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