Hey, can we go back to that other Supreme Court case?

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino. Sand which between some recent blockbuster Supreme Court rulings

came a decision, or kind of a non-decision,

that could reverberate through the tech world.

The industry's lobbying arm, Net Choice,

challenged laws in Florida and Texas that sought to restrict how

social media platforms moderate content. The High Court kicked both cases back to

lower courts with some added commentary.

Lauren Finer is a senior policy reporter with The Verge

who wrote about what this means for future attempts

to regulate tech.

The court didn't really rule on the merits of these cases because they said basically

the lower courts hadn't done enough work for them to really weigh in on that here, but the

justices really kind of went out of their way to be very clear about how at

least most of them think about the First Amendment when it comes to social media and online speech platforms.

So we really did get a little bit more insight into how they think about these things.

And they basically were trying to tell the lower courts, you know, here's kind of some guidelines to follow so that we don't get into this position again.

And it seems like fundamentally the opinion expressed that social media companies in their capacity moderating content that that is protected First Amendment activity.

Yeah, exactly.

So I mean, that was a pretty strong statement from the majority opinion that, you know,

yeah, content moderation is expressive and it's protected by the First Amendment and so that's really an important outcome of this case.

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