Texas's bizarre social media law suspended by Supreme Court
that"the record in this case confirms that the Legislature intended to target large social media platforms perceived as being biased against conservative views." by two tech industry groups — NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association — after a Fifth Circuit court had lifted an injunction on the law, doing so in a startling 2-1 decision for which no explanation was provided.
These same concerns were given new urgency after the Buffalo, New York shooting, in which a gunman with white supremacist beliefs killed 10 people and injured three others in a majority-black neighborhood while live-streaming the carnage. Social media companies worked to remove copies of the footage from their services. Even as they did so, the questionas to whether those removals would result in Texas dragging these platforms into court.
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