A federal appeals court has upheld a Texas law allowing users to sue social media platforms in the event of wrongful account suspension, in a win for defenders of free speech online.
, is likely to end up before the Supreme Court, which will provide a final determination on whether social media companies have a right to censor their users.For now, that “right” of censorship has been firmly rejected by the Fifth Circuit.
Representatives of the tech giants argue that forcing them to carry certain types of speech is itself a First Amendment violation. If this argument is valid, it means the First Amendment, oddly enough, provides corporations an unlimited right to censor.
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