NetChoice, CCIA Slam Fla. Social Media Law Defense
Florida’s social media law doesn’t “regulate the ‘conduct’ of ‘common carriers’ or impose only ‘incidental’ burdens on speech,” NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association replied (in Pacer) Friday to Florida at U.S. District Court in Tallahassee. The state…
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defended its law earlier last week as not unlike common carrier regulation (see 2106220030). The contested state law “overrides online services’ protected editorial judgments, interfering with the messages those judgments express and making the State the ultimate arbiter of private companies’ speech,” the internet industry groups said. “Florida cannot mandate such ‘enforced access’ -- even in the name of ‘enhanc[ing]’ speech, promoting ‘fairness,’ or addressing supposedly ‘vast accumulations of unreviewable power in the modern media empires.’” Virtual oral argument is Monday at 1:30 p.m. Judge Robert Hinkle said he plans to rule on preliminary injunction by end-of-day June 30.