5th Circuit Vacates Injunction Banning Enforcement Of Texas Social Media Law

Mealey's (September 29, 2022, 5:50 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Declining to endorse social media platforms’ “freewheeling” stance that they have a right under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution “to censor what people say,” a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel majority reversed an injunction that had prevented enforcement of a Texas law that prohibits large social media platforms from editing user-posted content based on the poster’s “viewpoint.”...