Oct. 2, Jared Schroeder, associate professor of journalism at SMU Dallas and a specialist in social media and First Amendment issues, for a commentary critical of a federal court ruling that upheld some Texas social media legislation that many deem unconstitutional. Published in the Dallas Morning News under the heading The 5th Circuit got it wrong in Texas social media case: https://tinyurl.com/3bt86kf5
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Texas’ social media law on Sept. 16. All it had to do was ignore nearly a century of precedent.
The appeals court, which is one step below the Supreme Court, turned a legal no-brainer into a meandering 113-page grab-bag of ideas.
Among other things, the Texas law prohibited large social media platforms (those with more than 50 million active users) from censoring content based on the users viewpoint.
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