Texas and Florida Open a Dangerous Door on Speech: Noah Feldman

The Supreme Court has now heard oral argument in two of the most important free-speech and social media cases it has ever considered. At issue is whether Texas and Florida may pass laws regulating what content the platforms may remove. The answer depends on how you frame the free speech question. Is this a case about whether the platforms can determine what we can say on social media? Or is it about whether the government can decide what we can say online? If the latter, social media speech would become a huge exception to the First Amendment.

It would be ...