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Could Florida make a bookstore display books only in alphabetical order?
Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett asks if the law would impact how information is organized, not just whether it’s hosted. She asks if Florida could pass a law that requires a bookstore not to favor certain books in its display.
“Don’t all methods of organization represent some kind of judgement?” she asked.
Whitaker said “the question of organization is analytically distinct” from that of hosting and that despite prohibitions on shadow-banning (i.e. severely downranking content), platforms can organize content however they’d like.
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