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(Reclaim The Net) — Presented as an effort to safeguard speech rights, the Biden administration has called on the Supreme Court to dismantle controversial segments of the anti-censorship social media laws ratified in Florida and Texas.
A copy of the filing can be found here.
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The laws in question restrict the autonomy of leading social media platforms by preventing them from censoring citizens’ speech and discriminating on the basis of political viewpoint.
(President Joe Biden is also using the argument that banning his administration from asking platforms to remove speech is a First Amendment violation.)
Both Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas Governor Greg Abbott staunchly support these laws as a means of protecting voices from being suppressed. Gov. DeSantis, at the law signing in May 2021, criticized Big Tech’s bias for Silicon Valley ideology and emphasized the need for accountability.
The Texas law, featuring a provision prohibiting discrimination based on viewpoints, incorporates several exceptions, permitting platforms to ban
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