The federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a Texas law that bars large social media companies from blocking users based on their viewpoint, putting a legal challenge from the tech industry on the brink of reaching the U.S. Supreme Court.
Later that month, at the request of the tech trade groups, the Supreme Court put the social media law back on hold until the 5th Circuit issued its full ruling on the merits, which came on Friday.
Critics of the law, including Texas Democratic lawmakers, argue that it would prevent social media companies from removing content they deem harmful, including hate speech andThe law’s Republican supporters counter that it makes exceptions by allowing platforms to remove content that “directly incites criminal activity or consists of specific threats of violence” targeting a person or group based on several characteristics, including race.
When the Supreme Court temporarily blocked House Bill 20 in May, the five-justice majority included an unusual mix of conservative and liberal justices, with Amy Coney Barrett, Stephen Breyer, Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts and Sonia Sotomayor voting to put the law on pause without detailing their reasoning. Their decision did not address the merits of the law.
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