The Supreme Court just blocked a controversial law that allows Texas residents and the attorney general to sue social media companies over their content-moderation decisions.
The law, HB 20, prohibits tech platforms from removing or restricting content based on the viewpoint represented in the user’s expression and was designed with conservative claims of tech’s liberal ideological bias in mind.
The Supreme Court ruling isn’t the final word on HB 20, which still faces a lawsuit from two tech industry groups, the Computer and Communications Industry Association and NetChoice, challenging its constitutionality.
The tech trade groups asked the Supreme Court to intervene with an emergency stay.