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The Supreme Court Takes on Content Moderation

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Is it censorship for social media platforms to moderate their content, or is censorship when the state tells social media platforms how to moderate their content? 


Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, Slate writer on courts and the law. 


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He found himself actually agreeing with Brett Kavanaugh, the Conservative Supreme Court Justice.

1:16.0

And I cannot tell you how much I dreaded it because I knew it was coming.

1:22.0

It happened Monday during oral arguments at the

1:25.2

Supreme Court in a case centered on the First Amendment and Big Tech. I knew that this was going to be one of those

1:32.4

handful of cases, every term, where Brett Kavanaugh was going to come out swinging for the right side.

1:39.6

And it was just like the embodiment of the worst person you know just made a great point.

1:45.0

The case challenges two laws passed in Florida and Texas that essentially banned social media companies from moderating content.

1:52.8

Conservative lawmakers in those states claim moderation violates the First Amendment.

1:57.8

So the states believe that social media companies, we're talking Facebook, Twitter slash X, YouTube, Google,

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