The suit itself is a good read. One of their arguments is that the US Government has, by putting pressure on YouTube/Facebook/Twitter to censor people, been in violation of the first amendment. Check out page 32 of the YouTube suit:
'Pursuant to Section 230, Defendants are encouraged and immunized by Congress
to censor constitutionally protected speech on the Internet, including by and among its
approximately 2.3 billion users that are citizens of the United States. '
'Defendants are vulnerable to and react to coercive pressure from the federal
government to regulate specific speech. '
'As such, Defendants’ censorship activities amount to state action. '
Still unsure how this lawsuit goes around 230. Anyone care to explain a little bit?
I aint no expert but the most simple thing to me is that 230 protects platfoms, when they censor they are acting as publishers
So my guess is the lawsuit is aimed to get scotus to rule that they are publishers? No expert here either
The suit itself is a good read. One of their arguments is that the US Government has, by putting pressure on YouTube/Facebook/Twitter to censor people, been in violation of the first amendment. Check out page 32 of the YouTube suit:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.595813/gov.uscourts.flsd.595813.1.0.pdf
'Pursuant to Section 230, Defendants are encouraged and immunized by Congress to censor constitutionally protected speech on the Internet, including by and among its approximately 2.3 billion users that are citizens of the United States. '
'Defendants are vulnerable to and react to coercive pressure from the federal government to regulate specific speech. '
'As such, Defendants’ censorship activities amount to state action. '