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TikTok’s last stand: Supreme Court weighs ban as deadline looms

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An ominous door being cracked open.

On Bluesky (requires login), Colorado Law professor Blake Reid points out how the court’s arguments could apply to US platforms:

The message from this argument is that you can maybe avoid even implicating speech interests if you go after editorial choices by way of structurally severing corporate ties with downstream intermediaries.

A prime example of how this could be abused: making the owners of social networks divest them to pressure them into changing how they moderate.

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