The justices, in a 5-4 decision, granted a request by NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association, which count Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) and YouTube as members, to block the law while litigation continues after a lower court on May 11 let it go into effect.
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In the injunction awarded in December, District Court Judge Robert Pitman wrote that “social media platforms have a First Amendment right to moderate content disseminated on their platforms.”
In granting the injunction, Pitman wrote that the plaintiffs had shown the “likelihood of success on the merits” of the case, noting several constitutional flaws in the statute, including its vagueness, overbreadth and discrimination “based on content and speaker.”
