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Will the High Court tackle social media regulation next term?

2021 Bill Text FL S.B. 7072. NetChoice LLC sued the State of Florida shortly after the Bill took effect and argued that the Bill violated the company’s First Amendment protection to moderate content. Additionally, NetChoice claimed that Section 230(c)(2) preempted the Bill’s provisions imposing liability on social media platforms for regulating content. Section 230(c)(2) provides that

[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of . . . any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally.”….