Free speech advocates blasted Justice Jackson for defending government censorship efforts and criticizing conservative views about the First Amendment as ‘hamstringing the government.’
The laws currently being considered require an end to shadow banning and banning of accounts belonging to people running for political office, as well as moderation policy disclosures.
The forthcoming Supreme Court decision may decide the status of free speech in America. Though the First Amendment prohibits restrictions on free speech by federal agencies, the legality of federal influence over social media companies is not clearly defined.
‘We have uncovered evidence that the Biden Administration directed and coerced Big Tech companies to censor content online and even books,’ Rep. Jim Jordan said in a statement.
Senator Josh Hawley said that Meta's seeming unwillingness to put more resources toward stopping child exploitation on its platforms is made even worse considering the level of resources it used to censor conservative political speech.
The Supreme Court should shut down Biden’s censorship regime in Murthy v. Missouri and stop the Deep State from using pressure campaigns to work around our Constitutional order.
The Supreme Court will hear Murthy v. Missouri but will also allow the Biden administration to continue encouraging Big Tech to censor disfavored speech until the case is decided.