Circuits Split On Big Tech Censorship

Federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled Big Tech has no “freewheeling 1st Amendment right to censor” while its Atlanta counterpart earlier said it does meaning, US Supreme Ct is likely to be the referee with final say so …

Fox News noted the 5th Circuit’s most recent decision is a “major victory for Republicans” because it involves a lawsuit challenging a Texas bill signed by Gov. Greg Abbott that told the biggest social media platforms they cannot censor or limit users’ speech based on their expressed views. In his opinion, Federal Judge Andrew Oldham said the Big Tech lawyers had argued for “a rather odd inversion of the 1st Amendment” that “buried somewhere in the person’s enumerated right to free speech lies a corporation’s unenumerated right to muzzle speech.”

The ruling, however, created what’s called a “circuit split,” normally resolved by the Supremes in Washington, DC, since the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals had already reached an opposite logic and ruling. It’s going to be hard, then, for the US Supreme Court not to accept further appeals from both sides.

Davd Soul