Two GOP judges just stripped social media companies of basic First Amendment rights
Two GOP judges just stripped social media companies of basic First Amendment rights
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The First Amendment doesn’t apply to Republicans anymore?
By Ian Millhiser May 12, 2022, 3:00pm EDT
https://www.vox.com/2022/5/12/23068017/supreme-court-first-amendment-twitter-facebook-youtube-instagram-netchoice-paxton-texas
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The conservative United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit handed down a brief, unexplained order Wednesday evening that will throw the entire social media industry into turmoil if the Texas law at issue in this case is allowed to remain in effect.
The decision in NetChoice v. Paxton reinstates an unconstitutional Texas law that seizes control of the major social media platforms’ content moderation process, requiring them to either carry content that those platforms do not wish to publish or be so restrictive it would render the platforms unusable. This law is unconstitutional because the First Amendment prohibits the government from ordering private companies or individuals to publish speech that they do not wish to be associated with.
As the Supreme Court said in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (2006), “this Court’s leading First Amendment precedents have established the principle that freedom of speech prohibits the government from telling people what they must say.”
The Texas law prohibits a social media platform “that functionally has more than 50 million active users in the United States in a calendar month” from banning a user — or even from regulating or restricting a user’s content or altering the algorithms that surface content to other users — because of that user’s “viewpoint.”
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You may not agree, but that is your prerogative.
Actually, corporations have been treated as 'individuals' as far as the law is concerned for a long long time - established corporate law goes back into the 19th century, at the least.
Until We The People elect more politicians that are not bound by corporate donations this will never change.
i.e. It will never change.
We have to reestablish or enact legislation in the US to control them and protect REAL people, as right now no government in the world can withstand the cash pressure from billionaires and corporation/cartels who have more $$$ then many countries do.
