5th Circuit Court Upholds Texas Law Prohibiting Viewpoint Censorship on Social Media

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, one level below the Supreme Court has ruled that a Texas law prohibiting viewpoint discrimination is constitutional. For too long the courts have fundamentally misinterpreted the law to allow such censorship. 

If you run a company that is a platform for speech you are just like a common carrier much like the phone company and they cannot engage in political, cultural or religious speech censorship. The First Amendment is not a license to censor as BigTech has argued. 

Click to access 2022-09-16-Published-Opinion-dckt-.pdf

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