Social media platform Rumble is suing New York over a law set to take effect on Dec. 3, alleging it’s illegal.
The measure requires platforms to “provide and maintain mechanisms for reporting hateful conduct on their platform,” and empowers New York’s attorney general to assess a fine of up to $1,000 per day on platforms that do not comply.
The law “hangs like the Sword of Damocles over a broad swath of online services (such as websites and apps), threatening to drop if they do not properly address speech that expresses certain state-disfavored viewpoints, as the state now mandates they must,” says Rumble’s 48-page complaint, filed this week in federal court in New York….