Biden administration urges Supreme Court to block Texas social media law

The Biden administration on Monday told the Supreme Court it should overturn the 5th Circuit Court’s decision to uphold a controversial Texas social media law, calling on the high court to take up a pair of cases that could have broad implications for the future of online speech. At stake are two laws passed in Texas and Florida in response to allegations that tech companies censor conservative viewpoints. After two circuit courts made conflicting rulings, a Supreme Court review was needed, Biden’s solicitor general Elizabeth B. Prelogar wrote. She wrote that the Supreme Court should reverse the 5th Circuit decision and affirm the 11th Circuit’s ruling. “The platforms’ content-moderation activities are protected by the First Amendment, and the content-moderation and individualized-explanation requirements impermissibly burden those protected activities.”