TEXAS, USA — While the U.S. Supreme Court declined to rule specifically on Texas and Florida laws that limit how social media companies can regulate or remove content, it did send the issue back to lower courts for more rulings.
The laws passed out of growing conservative concerns that large social media companies such as Facebook and X are censoring certain political viewpoints.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote the opinion, saying “there is much work to do below on both these cases.”
State Representative Briscoe Cain, R-Deer Park, calls it an evolving area of law and argues that social media companies should be considered common carriers, like telephone companies or mail carriers, which cannot pick and choose what to deliver folks based on politics.
While the Republican says lawmakers may try to tweak the law next session, the ruling works against them.
“I wouldn’t say that it was a good thing for us. In fact, I kind of took it as a small setback even though it’s coming back down. But it gives us a chance to continue to work on this and get it right,” Rep. Cain told us on Inside Texas Politics.
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