🚨 Excited to drop my new essay, Section 230’s Debts (forthcoming in the First Amendment Law Review), which catalogues the accumulation of internet law and policy debt under #Section230 and how the Supreme Court’s upcoming consideration of the #NetChoice cases might (or might not) pay it off. 1/ https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4624865
"Without some form of moderation, online communities die."
Laws in the states of Texas and Florida could affect how we all interact with the Internet. They seek to eliminate or strictly limit a platform’s ability to moderate content.
Good for trolls, bad for the rest of us.
Today we filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate these laws ⬇️
As expected, #SCOTUS grants cert in #NetChoice, following the SG's recommendations to consider the big #1A question and part, but not all, of the transparency issue and punting on NetChoice's viewpoint discrimination arguments.
Hmm... I was going to try to live-post the #SCOTUS oral arguments about #NetChoice today... but I don't know the voices of the US Supreme Court justices, and the live stream is audio-only.
There will be transcripts later, which will be helpful.
In the meantime, though, I don't think I'll be live-posting...
From the #NetChoice oral argument listening party, it's looking like it was a pretty big mistake for the platforms to pursue a facial challenge, which is giving the conservative Justices a ton of purchase to conclude that there might be legitimate applications of the law.