X Corp Sues To Block California Content Moderation Law

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "The company adds that the law impose "tremendously burdensome requirements on social media companies, requiring them to keep records about potentially hundreds of millions of content moderation decisions made on a daily basis.
49% : The California law "has both the purpose and likely effect of pressuring companies such as X Corp. to remove, demonetize, or deprioritize constitutionally-protected speech that the state deems undesirable or harmful, and places an unjustified and undue burden on social media companies such as X Corp.," lawyers for the company, including First Amendment expert Floyd Abrams, allege in a complaint brought Friday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.X Corp. alleges that even though the state touts the law as a mere "transparency" measure, lawmakers' intention was to pressure platforms to suppress speech that's protected by the First Amendment.
38% : "X Corp. says the law is unconstitutional, arguing that the statute interferes with private companies' editorial judgments about how to handle speech that's protected by the First Amendment.
34% : "X Corp. is seeking a declaration that the law is unconstitutional, and an injunction prohibiting enforcement.

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