What Makes Speech Truly Free? It’s Not the Government | Opinion

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard four hours of oral arguments in two major social media cases—one from Florida and one from Texas. In Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton, the Court is faced with two cases involving state laws regulating content moderation on social media platforms. The cases raise the question of whether these state laws regulating social media companies’ content moderation practices comply with the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution In 2021, Florida and Texas pioneered U.S. state legislation regulating social media platforms, with numerous states following their lead. These laws, aimed at limiting social media…