{"id":5784,"date":"2022-05-14T15:04:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T15:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/05\/14\/tech-industry-appeals-the-bad-texas-social-media-law-to-the-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2022-05-14T15:04:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T15:04:28","slug":"tech-industry-appeals-the-bad-texas-social-media-law-to-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/05\/14\/tech-industry-appeals-the-bad-texas-social-media-law-to-the-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech industry appeals the bad Texas social media law to the Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/13\/23072310\/netchoice-texas-social-media-law-supreme-court-appeal\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/13\/23072310\/netchoice-texas-social-media-law-supreme-court-appeal<\/a><br \/>\n<code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<div readability=\"65.021537162162\">\n<p id=\"cSnH4g\">Tech industry trade organizations NetChoice and the Computer Communications Industry Association have appealed directly to the Supreme Court for an emergency stay of the Texas social media law known as HB 20. The law, which creates liability for content moderation decisions that are based on \u201cthe viewpoint of the user or another person,\u201d could make it impossible to enforce bans on hate speech \u2014 or to even moderate platforms at all. HB 20 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/12\/1\/22809654\/texas-law-blocked-netchoice-ccia-injunction-viewpoint-discrimination\">successfully blocked in court<\/a> late last year, and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/11\/23067002\/texas-netchoice-paxton-hb20-social-media-law-fifth-circuit-appeals-court-grant-stay-ruling\">unblocked by an appeals court on Wednesday<\/a> without explanation. <\/p>\n<p id=\"FKSLef\">\u201cTexas HB 20 strips private online businesses of their speech rights, forbids them from making constitutionally protected editorial decisions, and forces them to publish and promote objectionable content,\u201d said NetChoice counsel Chris Marchese in a <a href=\"https:\/\/netchoice.org\/media-press\/netchoice-announces-request-for-emergency-stay-from-the-u-s-supreme-court\/\">press release<\/a>. \u201cThe First Amendment prohibits Texas from forcing online platforms to host and promote foreign propaganda, pornography, pro-Nazi speech, and spam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"1FzJZN\">In the appeals hearing preceding the court\u2019s decision to unblock HB 20, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/13\/23068423\/fifth-circuit-texas-social-media-law-ruling-first-amendment-section-230\">three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit appeared to be confused<\/a> about many of the basic terms being used \u2014 one judge seemed to think that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.protocol.com\/policy\/texas-appeal-confusion\">Twitter was not a website<\/a>, and another seemed to think there was no difference between a phone company like Verizon and a social media company like Twitter or Facebook. <\/p>\n<aside id=\"R4SMcM\">\n<\/aside>\n<p id=\"iHdaJs\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/6\/30\/22558086\/florida-social-media-theme-park-law-preliminary-injunction-lawsuit\">NetChoice won a similar case in Florida<\/a> last year, making the constitutional issues in this case even more pressing to address.  <\/p>\n<p id=\"U9TXN8\">By going directly to the Supreme Court, NetChoice and CCIA have chosen to skip \u201cen banc\u201d review, in which the Fifth Circuit would have assembled a larger panel to review the decision of the original panel. NetChoice\u2019s emergency stay request will be <a href=\"https:\/\/netchoice.org\/media-press\/netchoice-announces-request-for-emergency-stay-from-the-u-s-supreme-court\/\">reviewed by Justice Samuel Alito<\/a>, who might decide unilaterally or refer the matter to court at large. If granted, the request would mean that HB 20 is once again blocked, pending further legal proceedings. <\/p>\n<p id=\"ehFWRe\">At the moment, the Supreme Court has a solid conservative majority, including Justice Clarence Thomas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/4\/5\/22368045\/clarence-thomas-social-media-regulation-knight-v-trump\">whose views on Twitter moderation<\/a> seem to echo HB 20, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2022\/01\/31\/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court\">whose wife\u2019s Facebook posts<\/a> promoted the January 6th rally that turned into an insurrection and also resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/1\/8\/22218753\/twitter-bans-trump-permanently-realdonaldtrump\">Donald Trump getting banned on Twitter<\/a>.   <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/13\/23072310\/netchoice-texas-social-media-law-supreme-court-appeal\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/13\/23072310\/netchoice-texas-social-media-law-supreme-court-appeal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech industry trade organizations NetChoice and the Computer Communications Industry Association have appealed directly to the Supreme Court for an emergency stay of the Texas social media law known as HB 20. The law, which creates liability for content moderation decisions that are based on \u201cthe viewpoint of the user or another person,\u201d could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-5784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy","category-technology","tag-policy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tech industry appeals the bad Texas social media law to the Supreme Court - Science and Nerds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/05\/14\/tech-industry-appeals-the-bad-texas-social-media-law-to-the-supreme-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tech industry appeals the bad Texas social media law to the Supreme Court - Science and Nerds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Source: Tech industry trade organizations NetChoice and the Computer Communications Industry Association have appealed directly to the Supreme Court for an emergency stay of the Texas social media law known as HB 20. 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