A Republican senator called on the Supreme Court to finally address the rampant censorship targeting Americans’ speech on Big Tech platforms.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Tuesday filed a brief to the Court supporting Texas and Florida’s laws blocking social media platforms from censoring content based on discrimination against political views. Both state laws on the matter triggered separate lawsuits, ultimately reaching the nation’s high court. “The Supreme Court should rein them in – and the government should break them up,” Hawley emphasized on Twitter, referring to censorship-obsessed Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Google, TikTok and others.
Hawley’s brief called on the justices to dunk on Big Tech’s counterclaims that the Texas and Florida laws, enacted in 2021, violate their supposed First Amendment rights, as first reported…
