WASHINGTON, D.C. – Social media companies and censorship were the topic of Supreme Court arguments Monday with the justices considering two cases involving how the First Amendment applies to social media, and their decision could fundamentally change free speech on popular platforms.
Monday’s arguments involve two state laws in Texas and Florida that increase transparency and accountability for big tech companies and could change how they operate going forward.
“The logic that the social media platforms are saying is if we host speech then it’s our right to decide what’s on our platform and what’s not, but that’s not true for any other kind of common carrier,” Daniel Cochrane of the Heritage Foundation explained to CBN News.
The Texas case challenges a law banning social media companies from removing political content, even if that content contains hate speech. While the Florida case looks at a law making it illegal for platforms to ban current political candidates from social media.
“Here in front of the court, the tech companies are claiming that when they decide to take your posts or content down, it’s really their free speech and they have a right to do it, so the justices seemed a little bit
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