Satire and news websites identify multiple instances of viewpoint-targeted censorship and shadow-banning by social media platforms
ATLANTA, Sept. 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- First Liberty Institute filed a friend-of-the-court brief at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on behalf of the Babylon Bee LLC and Not the Bee LLC in NetChoice LLC, et al. v. Attorney General of Florida, et al. In that case, the court will review a Florida law that prohibits social media platforms from inconsistently applying their content standards to target disfavored speakers or viewpoints.
You can read the brief here.
“Social media giants have lied to the public about allowing intellectual diversity on their platforms and are selectively applying their standards to censor disfavored conservative and religious speech,” said Jordan Pratt, Senior Counsel for First Liberty Institute. “Florida’s law is a basic consumer-protection regulation that simply holds social media platforms accountable to the image of neutrality that they project, and it is consistent with federal law and the First Amendment.”
“We just want the tech companies to be transparent about what the rules are and then apply them equally,” said Seth Dillon, CEO of Babylon Bee. “At a minimum, we want social media platforms to evenhandedly apply their content standards.”
In 2021, the Florida legislature adopted a new consumer-protection law that requires social media platforms to announce and consistently apply their...
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