{"id":2000293,"date":"2023-08-14T16:40:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T20:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-review-texas-and-florida-social-media-laws\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T16:41:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T20:41:16","slug":"biden-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-review-texas-and-florida-social-media-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-review-texas-and-florida-social-media-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration seeks Supreme Court review of Texas and Florida social media laws."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fbiden-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-review-texas-and-florida-social-media-laws%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=2000293&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--><h2>The Biden Administration Seeks Supreme Court Review of Social Media Laws in Texas and Florida<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden administration has taken a stand against two social \u2062media laws in Texas and Florida, arguing that they\u200d infringe on free speech. \u200dSolicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar filed \u200ban amicus brief on Monday, urging the Supreme Court to consider the lawsuit brought by conservative technology group NetChoice against these states. The brief contends that both Texas and Florida violate the First\u200b Amendment by imposing restrictions on how social \u2064platforms regulate\u200d and moderate content.<\/p>\n<h3>Common Elements of the Laws<\/h3>\n<p>While the\u2064 laws in Texas and Florida may \u2063differ in certain aspects, they share three key provisions, as highlighted in the brief.\u2062 These include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Content-moderation provisions:<\/strong> These restrict platforms&#8217; choices regarding the presentation of user-generated content to the public.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Individualized-explanation provisions:<\/strong> These require platforms to\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-review-texas-and-florida-social-media-laws\/\" title=\"Biden administration seeks Supreme Court review of Texas and Florida social media laws.\">explain specific content-moderation decisions<\/a> to affected users.<\/li>\n<li><strong>General-disclosure\u200b provisions:<\/strong> These mandate platforms to disclose information about their\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-says-twitter-advertisers-are-caving-to-activist-groups\/\" title=\"Elon Musk Says Twitter Advertisers Are Caving to Activist Groups\">content-moderation practices<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8220;The Solicitor General&#8217;s brief emphasizes the unconstitutionality of both Texas and Florida&#8217;s\u2063 laws and urges the Court to review our cases,&#8221; \u2064stated Chris Marchese, NetChoice&#8217;s director of litigation. &#8220;We strongly urge the Court to strike down these laws and reaffirm that the government cannot control online speech in\u2064 violation of the\u200b Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ\u200b MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Details of\u2064 the Laws in Texas and Florida<\/h3>\n<p>In May\u200b 2021, Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed Senate Bill \u200c7072, which enables Florida residents to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-taps-prominent-google-critic-for-top-doj-antitrust-position\/\" title=\"Biden Taps Prominent Google Critic For Top DOJ Antitrust Position\">sue tech companies<\/a> for up to \u2062$250,000 per day if they remove \u2062a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-level-republicans-push-back-on-big-tech\/\" title=\"State-Level Republicans Push Back on Big Tech\">statewide political candidate<\/a> from\u200d their platform\u200b for more \u2063than two weeks. The penalty is lower for county or local positions.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2021, Governor Greg Abbott\u2063 (R-TX) signed House Bill 20, but the \u2062Supreme Court\u200d temporarily blocked its enforcement. This law\u2063 prohibits platforms with over 50 million users from banning content based on user viewpoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>laws in Texas and Florida, which the Biden administration wants the Supreme Court to review, are accused of violating free speech. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar filed an amicus brief, urging the court to consider NetChoice&#8217;s lawsuit against the conservative technology group in these states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2000294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000293","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=2000293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}