SCOTUS' ruling on social media was a bigger deal than it first seemed. Content moderation and ranking algorithms are now First Amendment-protected speech, and that has major implications for the internet. My newsletter today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/02/netchoice-scotus-content-moderation-speech/
Analysis | Supreme Court says content moderation is speech

The NetChoice opinion is a bigger deal than it might seem.

Washington Post

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"majority opinion makes clear that forcing social media companies to carry certain posts is unlikely to be constitutional. But in declining to throw out the laws altogether, the court signaled that other aspects of those measures might be less problematic."

Seems not necessarily dumb?