Public Access SCOTUS Decision Points to Social Media Legal Status, Professor Says
Though opinions in the Supreme Court's Manhattan Community Access decision earlier this month (see 1906170014) don't mention social media providers, the majority ruling and the dissent agreement with the majority seems clearly to indicate social media services aren't state actors,…
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blogged Santa Clara University Director-High Tech Law Institute professor Eric Goldman Wednesday. He said the majority opinion only deals with one branch of state action doctrine, but the ruling likely will have lower courts rejecting plaintiff attempts to restrict publishers' editorial freedom, with such "workaround arguments represent[ing] pro-censorship doctrines."