Calling the legislation a “blatant attack” on the First Amendment rights of private businesses, the trade groups urged a federal court to declare SB 7072 unconstitutional and unenforceable.
The lawsuit filed by NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association — both of which count Facebook, Google and Twitter as members — alleges that the legislation unlawfully forces tech companies to host content they might otherwise prohibit under their platform policies.
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“The law is crony capitalism masquerading as consumer protection,” said NetChoice VP Carl Szabo in a statement, adding that SB 7072 allows the state government to “pick winners and losers while clearly favoring a handful of powerful businesses like Disney and Comcast.”