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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Can states tell Facebook and other social sites which posts to take down and which ones to leave up?

The Supreme Court hears nearly four hours of arguments on that question.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Alicia Finley and Kim Strassal.

The marathon arguments Monday at the Supreme Court involve two cases, Moody versus

Net Choice and Net Choice versus Paxton, one of which involves a challenge to

an internet regulation law passed by the state of Florida and the other by the state of Texas.

So Alicia, maybe the best place to start is could you give us a sense of why Texas and Florida

passed these laws and what they aim to do.

So two different laws, they have some commonalities, but basically the Florida law banned

social media platforms from removing the accounts of political candidates for office.

I mean this could be very local offices or it could be national offices or suppressing or

censoring any posts by or about them.

It would also prohibit platforms from taking any action to censor,

the platform or shadow ban a journalistic enterprise based on the content of its publication

or broadcast and it goes into detail to how it defines journalistic enterprise, so it would be larger

outfits, but it could potentially rope in some substacks, potentially with large numbers of subscribers.

It wouldn't merely just apply for social media platforms and that was an issue that came up

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