Former President Donald Trump is urging the Supreme Court to hear a case from Florida that asks the court to decide if states have the power to regulate how social media companies moderate content on their platforms.
Last week, 16 states also asked the high court to take up the case.
The case is important because it pits the right of individual Americans to freely express themselves online against the right of social media platforms to make editorial decisions about content.
Republicans and conservatives have complained for years about being censored by the platforms. They were furious when platforms banned Trump in January 2021, blocked a New York Post article about Hunter Biden’s laptop, and silenced dissenting opinions about the origins of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus and on treatments for the disease it causes….