Supreme Court justices seem unlikely to extend First Amendment protections to users of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/25/scotus-reluctant-to-extend-1st-amendment-protections-to-facebook-twitter-users.html
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a First Amendment case that experts have said could have ramifications for how the nation's largest social media companies are permitted to moderate the content on their platforms.
But the justices' questions during oral argument revealed a reluctance to enter into that fraught arena, suggesting that the future ruling on the matter will hew narrowly to questions specific to the facts of the case, which involved not social media but instead public-access television channels in New York City.
Supreme Court justices seem unlikely to extend First Amendment protections to users of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter
Feb 25, 2019, 8:29pm UTC
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/25/scotus-reluctant-to-extend-1st-amendment-protections-to-facebook-twitter-users.html
> The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a First Amendment case that experts have said could have ramifications for how the nation's largest social media companies are permitted to moderate the content on their platforms.
> But the justices' questions during oral argument revealed a reluctance to enter into that fraught arena, suggesting that the future ruling on the matter will hew narrowly to questions specific to the facts of the case, which involved not social media but instead public-access television channels in New York City.