According to a report from Fox News, Federal Judge Andrew S. Oldham of the Fifth Circuit upheld a Texas law on Friday limiting the rights of social media companies like Facebook and Twitter when squashing opinions.
“Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say,” Judge Oldham said.
Next, the case could end up before the Supreme Court.
From Fox News:
The lawsuit is challenging HB 20, a Texas bill signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott that regulates social media platforms with more than 50 million monthly users, which includes Google, Facebook and Twitter, and says they cannot censor or limit users’ speech based on viewpoint expression.
In his opinion, Federal Judge Andrew S. Oldham of the Fifth Circuit said the platforms argued for “a rather odd inversion of the First Amendment” that “buried somewhere in the person’s enumerated right to free speech lies a corporation’s unenumerated right to muzzle speech.”
“I just secured a MASSIVE VICTORY for the Constitution & Free Speech in fed court: #BigTech CANNOT censor the political voices of ANY Texan!” tweeted Texas AG Ken Paxton, who is arguing in defense.
BREAKING: I just secured a MASSIVE VICTORY for the Constitution & Free Speech in fed court: #BigTech CANNOT censor the political voices of ANY Texan! The 5th Circuit “reject[s] the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say. pic.twitter.com/UijlzYcv7r
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) September 16, 2022
More over at Fox News:
Federal Court rules Big Tech has no 'freewheeling First Amendment right to censor' https://t.co/DIDUfUfiU3
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 19, 2022
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