The Supreme Court recently announced that it is going to hear two major cases relating to the right of free expression.
It is regrettable, to say the least, that the redacting of factual information, political ideology, faith expression, and the like, which frequently runs contrary to today's progressive and/or radical narratives, is routine business for a majority of Big Tech companies. Florida law SB 7072 forbids large social media platforms from censoring or banning political candidates and what the law refers to as a "journalistic enterprise." The Florida bill also mandates that social media companies publish standards for the removal of content as well as for exercising consistency in the application of such standards.
Two appeals courts have given conflicting rulings over the two state laws. One of the appellate courts upheld the Texas law, but another struck down the Florida statute. In both cases, implementation of the state laws during appeals has been temporarily halted by federal courts.Justice Samuel Alito was part of a dissenting opinion, which said that the law should be left in place and that the issues were so novel and significant that the Supreme Court would have to consider them at some point.
The aforementioned tech trade groups, along with the Biden administration, are contending that the Constitution protects the social media platforms' elimination of so-called disinformation.