Florida Anti-Censorship Law Overturned (Jimmy Dore)

Florida recently passed a law refusing social media companies the ability to censor or otherwise restrict users’ lawful content, but an appeals court has struck down the law, citing the social media companies’ free speech rights under the First Amendment. A different appellate court ruled in the opposite direction concerning a Texas law, however, so it appears that the Supreme Court will soon be weighing in to determine whether social media censorship is protected by the First Amendment.

Jimmy and American comedian Kurt Metzger puzzle over the curious pretzel logic that pervades among questions of social media platforms and censorship today.



Does this corporate first amendment right stem from the notion that corporations are being seen as individuals in the USA? The problem there is that they then end up with dominion over the rights of real individuals.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, May 31, 2022.]