Thu Feb 16, 2023 – 4:53 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr. granted an injunction Tuesday blocking enforcement of a New York law requiring social media platforms to “maintain mechanisms for reporting hateful conduct” as an infringement on the freedom of speech.
The Daily Caller reported that last year, in the wake of a shooting at a Buffalo supermarket by a self-described “anti-Semite” and “white supremacist, New York enacted the so-called Hateful Conduct Law, which concerns “the use of a social media network to vilify, humiliate, or incite violence against a group or a class of persons on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression”; ostensibly to limit the spread of speech that supposedly radicalizes disturbed minds into violence.
Last December, the libertarian group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) sued the state over the law on behalf of alternative social platforms Rumble and Locals, as well as UCLA constitutional law scholar Eugene Volokh.
Carter sided with FIRE, finding that the law “both compels social media networks to speak about the contours
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