WASHINGTON (CBS NEWS) — The Supreme Court will decide Monday whether the government crossed a constitutional line by censoring legal speech when it emphasized that social media platforms remove content it deemed misleading.
The Supreme Court read on the extent to which the federal government’s attempts to protect itself from incorrect information on social media are translating into a censorship of speech that is constitutionally protected.
“The key question of relaxed speech is how the government can verbally compel personal speech intermediaries to suppress speech before it becomes a First Amendment violation or a state action,” said Clay Calvert, a law professor at the University of Florida. expert.
In addition to the social media case, known as Murthy v. Missouri, the Supreme Court will also hear a dispute Monday over a New York currency regulator that violated the National Rifle Association’s lax speech rights when it targeted the state’s banks and insurance companies. with the gun rights group.
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