In New Supreme Court Social Media Case, Echoes of Citizens United on “AntiDistortion” and the Foreign Campaign Spending Ban, with Implications for Shutting Down Tik-Tok

campaign finance, social media and social protests, Supreme Court
I want to pick up a point first flagged yesterday by Eugene Volokh from yesterday’s decision in Moody v. NetChoice that could have relevance to new legislation, currently being challenged in court, that could ban Tik-Tok as being foreign owned.… Continue reading

My New Slate Piece on Today’s NetChoice Social Media Cases: “The First Amendment Just Dodged an Enormous Bullet at the Supreme Court”

First Amendment theory, social media and social protests, Supreme Court
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: At Supreme Court oral argument in the Texas social media case back in February, Justice Samuel Alito asked the question: “Let’s say YouTube were a newspaper, how much would it weigh?”… Continue reading