Florida Insists Social Platforms Resemble Telcos
Florida’s social media law includes “modest regulations” requiring tech companies to publish platform rules upfront, apply them consistently and notify users about violations, and requiring “platforms to host certain content by journalists and political candidates,” the state replied Monday at…
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the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (case 21-12355). The law’s challengers, NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association, ask the 11th Circuit to affirm a lower court’s preliminary injunction (see 2111090062). It's contradictory for tech companies to “disclaim responsibility for the user speech they host” while arguing “their platforms are full of the platforms’ own speech,” said Florida. "Plaintiffs insist they are no different from newspaper editors, but in truth they are more like a telephone company, controlling the very instrument others use to express themselves.”