Do Social Media Platforms Have Free Speech Rights to 'Censor' Conservatives?
The article discusses how the U.S. Supreme Court addressed challenges to Florida and Texas laws prohibiting censorship by social media platforms which moderated user content, particularly targeting claims of bias against conservative viewpoints. In NetChoice v. Moody and NetChoice v. Paxton, the Cou...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 67; no. 11; pp. 24 - 27 |
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| Formato: | Opinion |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Nov2024
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