{"id":48882,"date":"2022-05-31T16:52:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T23:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48882"},"modified":"2022-05-31T16:52:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T23:52:29","slug":"a-win-for-tech-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48882","title":{"rendered":"A win for tech groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas law that would bar social media companies from taking action on hate speech and disinformation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27903003.2114\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvMzUwNzIxNi1zdXByZW1lLWNvdXJ0LXZvdGVzLXRvLXRlbXBvcmFyaWx5LWJsb2NrLXRleGFzLXNvY2lhbC1tZWRpYS1sYXcvP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBcf23ff92\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27903003.2114\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvMzUwNzIxNi1zdXByZW1lLWNvdXJ0LXZvdGVzLXRvLXRlbXBvcmFyaWx5LWJsb2NrLXRleGFzLXNvY2lhbC1tZWRpYS1sYXcvP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBcf23ff92&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1654125875966000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1zFB3Q5P59CvpCEQGSqU-d\">was temporarily blocked<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday in a rare 5-4 Supreme Court ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Justices John\u00a0Roberts,\u00a0Brett Kavanaugh,\u00a0Amy Coney Barrett,\u00a0Sonia Sotomayor and\u00a0Stephen Breyer\u00a0ruled in favor of tech industry groups looking to block the law, with\u00a0Samuel Alito,\u00a0Clarence Thomas,\u00a0Neil Gorsuch\u00a0and\u00a0Elena Kagan\u00a0dissenting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The decision is a win for tech groups pushing back on laws coming from Republican-controlled state legislatures that seek to put barriers on social media companies\u2019 ability to moderate content.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A case on the law itself may wind up back before the Supreme Court as it makes its way through challenges in lower courts. But Tuesday\u2019s decision means the law \u2014 which critics have said could lead to a more dangerous internet \u2014 will remain blocked for now in Texas, reversing a decision from a court of appeals earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Alito\u2019s dissenting opinion, he said he has not \u201cformed a definitive view on the novel legal questions that arise from Texas\u2019s decision to address the \u2018changing social and economic\u2019 conditions it perceives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas law that would bar&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48883,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48882\/revisions\/48883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}