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They continue to conflate the First Amendment with the actual issue that is going to be heard in the SCOTUS in the near future.
The SCOTUS has delayed a ruling on Florida and Texas legislation that would prohibit social media platform owners from censoring disinformation on their platforms...
On Monday, the court asked the U.S. solicitor general for input on the cases, which were both filed by tech industry groups NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Assocation (CCIA). The groups argue that the laws violate the First Amendment rights of companies to determine what speech they host.
Republican leaders in Texas and Florida have promoted the legislation as a way to counteract what they call unjust censorship of conservative viewpoints on social media. Major platforms have maintained that they simply enforce their terms of service.
NetChoice and CCIA warned that if allowed to take effect, the social media laws would force platforms to keep messages even if they make false claims on very sensitive subjects. Examples include “Russia’s propaganda claiming that its invasion of Ukraine is justified, ISIS propaganda claiming that extremism is warranted, neo-Nazi or KKK screeds denying or supporting the Holocaust, and encouraging children to engage in risky or unhealthy behavior like eating disorders,” the groups wrote in an emergency application seeking to block Texas’ law from taking effect.
These Texas and Florida laws are actually infringements of the First Amendment. The government can't interfere with the rights of a private social media business that chooses to determine what kind of speech they will allow on their platforms.
We can educate these stupid **** MAGA/Q-ANON polacks on the First Amendment all day long and they will still deny it. Perhaps when the Trump packed SCOTUS finally rules these laws as unconstitutional they will finally STFU about it...but I kinda ****' doubt it, they are, after all, a pack of stupid **** polacks.