© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A view of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S., March 4, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis
By Andrew Chung
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a Texas law that bars large social media companies from banning or censoring users based on “viewpoint,” siding with two technology industry groups that have argued that the Republican-backed measure would turn platforms into “havens of the vilest expression imaginable.”
The justices granted a request by NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association, which count Facebook (NASDAQ:), Twitter (NYSE:) 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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