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The Supreme Court could decide the future of content moderation — or it could punt
The Supreme Court is considering the fate of two state laws that limit how social media companies can moderate the content on their platforms. In oral
The Florida and Texas laws are now tangled up in a complex web of dusty legal precedents, largely drawing on rulings created long before words like “tweet” and “livestream” were part of everyday speech. Because most laws governing the modern internet are so outdated, tech companies and their critics alike are eager for clarity — though as the Supreme Court demonstrated last year with a different pair of social media cases, they may not get it. But the one thing I know about the Internet is that its variety is infinite.” Sotomayor pointed to the online marketplace Etsy as a less obvious example of a website that could be negatively impacted by state laws designed to dictate what social media companies can do.
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