Supreme Court Takes Up Battle Over Content Moderation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : After the conflicting decisions came out, the tech industry groups and state of Florida asked the Supreme Court to take up the case.
46% : "The Texas law was also blocked by a trial judge, but the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law should be reinstated.
45% : "Businesses large and small want to know that their advertising and marketing is reaching its intended audience without having their ads placed next to content they deem to be offensive or untrue," IAB executive vice president for public policy Lartease Tiffith stated last yearBoth measures were fueled by right-wing lawmakers' belief that technology companies are especially likely to suppress conservative posts.
40% : "Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say," judges on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals wrote last year in a ruling allowing Texas to enforce the law.
37% : A trial judge blocked the Florida law and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals largely upheld that decision, ruling that the law likely violated the First Amendment.

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