The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to clarify the role of government over the issue of coercing social media companies to censor content in violation of the First Amendment. EFF Director David Greene says, “Government co-option of content moderation systems is a serious threat to freedom of speech, but there are clearly times when it is permissible, appropriate, and even good public policy for government agencies and officials to inform, communicate with, attempt to persuade, or even criticize sites—free of coercion—about the user speech they publish.” (Electronic Frontier Foundation, December 21, 2023, press release)
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