The Supreme Court Rules On Social Media Censorship Imposed By The Biden Administration

Posted • June 26, 2024: The lower court found that various social media companies—like Twitter/X, Meta/Facebook and Google/YouTube—were not censoring based on their own desires, but because of illegal government pressure. As a result, the District Court issued a preliminary injunction, prohibiting a broad range of communication by the government, and it applied nationwide. If you have been on social media since then, this order protected your right to free speech. So this is pretty bad news for freedom of expression in this country: …Neither the individual nor the state plaintiffs have established Article III standing to seek an injunction against any defendant.

We won’t sugarcoat this. This is bad news for the Republic, including and especially free and fair elections, but it isn’t a total win for Biden, either. The short version is that the Supreme Court is saying that these plaintiffs had no right to sue even if they were harmed by government action. We haven’t read over the entire opinion because we are trying to get the news out, but typically in these cases, they are saying there still might be the right plaintiff to file suit in the future. (…)

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