Federal Court Limits Cyber Agency's Contact with Big Tech

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A federal appeals court Tuesday barred the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) from coordinating with social media companies to censor election-related speech.

A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled the CISA "used its frequent interactions with social media platforms to push them to adopt more restrictive policies on election-related speech," The Washington Post reported.

Tuesday's decision bars CISA, its director Jen Easterly and other top agency officials from taking actions that "coerce or significantly encourage" tech companies to remove or reduce the spread of posts, the Post reported. It also clears the way for the Supreme Court to decide whether to take the case, after the Justice Department asked the justices to put the 5th Circuit ruling on hold.

"CISA is the 'nerve center' of the vast censorship enterprise, the very entity that worked with the FBI to silence the Hunter Biden laptop story," Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey posted Tuesday on X. Bailey and Republican Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry were the principles behind the filing of Missouri v. Biden.

 

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