{"id":1645789,"date":"2022-09-18T07:08:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T11:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1645789"},"modified":"2022-09-18T07:46:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T11:46:26","slug":"appeals-court-blocks-big-tech-attempt-to-regulate-online-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/appeals-court-blocks-big-tech-attempt-to-regulate-online-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court Blocks Big Tech Attempt to Regulate Online Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fappeals-court-blocks-big-tech-attempt-to-regulate-online-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1645789&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/capitol.texas.gov\/tlodocs\/872\/billtext\/pdf\/HB00020F.pdf#navpanes=0\">Texas law<\/a> preventing large social media platforms from banning or censoring users based on their political viewpoints will go into effect after a federal appeals court lifted a block placed on the statute on Friday, reported <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/us-appeals-court-rules-against-big-techs-ability-regulate-online-speech-2022-09-16\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sets up the potential for the Supreme Court to rule on the law, which could be a major setback for the &#8220;Big Tech&#8221; industry as many conservatives and others with right-leaning opinions accuse companies such as Meta and Twitter of <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/cdcs-plan-to-work-with-big-tech-to-suppress-vaccine-misinformation-resulted-in-censorship\">political censorship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just secured a MASSIVE VICTORY for the Constitution &amp; Free Speech in fed court,&#8221; wrote TX Attorney General Ken Paxton when breaking the news.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the loudest voices calling out the bias is BlazeTV host Dave Rubin, who on Thursday predicted that <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/biden-sued-for-colluding-with-big-tech-to-censor-hunter-biden-laptop-story-covid-19-lab-leak-theory\">social media censorship<\/a> of ring-wingers would ramp up ahead of the November midterm elections even faster due to the discourse surrounding Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida&#8217;s move to send illegal migrants to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say,&#8221; Judge Andrew Oldham, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, wrote in the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The tech groups that were on the losing side in challenging the law during Friday&#8217;s ruling include <a href=\"https:\/\/netchoice.org\/netchoice-and-ccia-sue-state-of-texas-for-legislation-hb-20-that-flagrantly-violates-texan-free-speech\/\">NetChoice<\/a> and the Computer &amp; Communications Industry Association, of which Meta Platforms&#8217; Facebook, Twitter, and Alphabet Inc&#8217;s YouTube are members.<\/p>\n<p>The association argued against forcing private companies to give equal treatment to all viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;God Bless America&#8217; and &#8216;Death to America&#8217; are both viewpoints, and it is unwise and unconstitutional for the state of Texas to compel a private business to treat those the same,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas law forbids social media companies with 50 million or more monthly active users from acting to &#8220;censor&#8221; users based on &#8220;viewpoint,&#8221; and allows either users or the Texas attorney general to sue if this is violated.<\/p>\n<p>Because the 5th Circuit ruling conflicts with part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/netchoice.org\/eleventh-circuit-strikes-down-main-provisions-of-florida-social-media-law\/\">ruling<\/a> by the 11th Circuit, the aggrieved parties may have a strong case for petitioning the Supreme Court to hear the matter.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the 11th Circuit Court, based in Atlanta, found that most of a similar Florida law violates the companies&#8217; First Amendment rights, and cannot be enforced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas law preventing large social media platforms from banning or censoring users based on their political viewpoints will go into effect after a federal appeals court lifted a block<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1645791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1645789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1645791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}