#370: The SCOTUS Internet-Speech Law Apocalypse — With Daphne Keller

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🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Daphne Keller (Stanford Cyber Policy Center) and Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) discuss the Supreme Court oral argument in Murthy v. Missouri (government jawboning of social media platforms) and the NetChoice cases (state content moderation laws). Links: Six Things About Jawboning (https://tinyurl.com/4jhbkhy7) The Lies the 5th Circuit Told You About the Government ‘Pressuring Social Media to Censor’ (https://tinyurl.com/cbr4thke) Tech Policy Podcast #350: When the Government Yells at Social Media (https://tinyurl.com/3c4p3scr) FAQs About the NetChoice Cases at the Supreme Court, Part 1 (https://tinyurl.com/384a97wt) FAQs About the NetChoice Cases at the Supreme Court, Part 2 (https://tinyurl.com/4phs2h6c) The Long Reach of Taamneh: Carriage and Removal Requirements for Internet Platforms (https://tinyurl.com/4x9cnj87) God Help Us, but Brett Kavanaugh Could Save the First Amendment (https://tinyurl.com/bddbrk4h) ‘Orwellian’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means (https://tinyurl.com/4bfurjj3)

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0:00.0	Attention Attention internet users.
0:26.7	This is not a drill.
0:29.8	Between now and the end of June, the Supreme Court will decide the fate of free speech online.
0:37.1	Will the court let states like Florida and Texas commandeer
0:40.6	Facebook, YouTube, and maybe like Uber, and turn them into cesspools of garbage content?
0:47.8	Would that in turn lead to internet law anarchy with red state must carry statutes over here and blue state
0:56.0	takedown statutes over there, and websites stuck in the middle, being forced to zig and
1:01.9	zag like polarized metal filings at the cruel mercy of their mother magnet?
1:07.8	Well, the court declared that the government's national security experts cannot warn social media
1:12.9	platforms about foreign attempts to interfere with our elections. I mean, why not, right? One judge has
1:20.7	already written that by communicating regularly with platforms about misinformation related to the
1:26.9	COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 election,
1:30.5	quote, the United States government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian Ministry of Truth.
1:39.4	The government, thinking it should fight disease and protect elections.
1:44.7	What is this, North Korea?
1:47.4	Mind your own business government.
1:50.3	I'm talking about the net choice cases.
1:53.7	Those are the ones about the Florida and Texas must carry laws.
1:58.2	And Murthy v. Missouri, which is the one about the federal government's so-called
2:03.1	jaw-boning of social media companies. Oral argument in the net choice cases, to be exact,
2:10.4	Moody versus Net Choice and Net Choice versus Paxton, occurred at the end of February.
2:17.5	Oral argument in Murthy just happened on March 18th.
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