NetChoice v. Paxton: Navigating and Refereeing Freedom of Speech in Cyberspace

Rush, Mark

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In NetChoice v. Paxton and the companion case Moody v. NetChoice, a unanimous Supreme Court essentially told NetChoice and the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits to go back and do their homework.

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1.
Slip op. 30. Internal citations omitted.
2.
Slip op. 19–20. Internal citations omitted.
3.
Slip op. 6–7. See also: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/01/nx-s1-4991108/supreme-court-NetChoice#:~:text=The%20Supreme%20Court%20on%20Monday%20put%20a%20pair,in%20doing%20so%2C%20it%20prompted%20five%20separate%20opinions.
4.
Slip op. 13–14.
5.
418 U.S. 241 (1974).
6.
Ibid., 258.
7.
Slip op. 24, internal citations omitted.
8.
Slip op. 14 citing 418 U.S. 241 at 249–250.
9.
Slip op. 14.
10.
See, e.g., Fiss, Owen Fiss. 1986. “Free Speech and Social Structure.” 71 Iowa Law Review 1405-25.
11.
See Volokh, Eugene. 1995. “Cheap Speech and What it Will Do.” 104 Yale Law Journal 1805-50; Volokh, Eugene. 2021. “What Cheap Speech has Done: (Greater) Equality and its Discontents.” 54 UC Davis Law Review 2303-40.
12.
Slip op. Alito concurring, 17.
13.
447 U.S. 74 (1980).
14.
Ibid., 20.
15.
Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971).
16.
582 U.S. 98 (2017).
17.
Slip op. Alito concurring, 3. Citing 582 U.S. 98, 107 (2017).
18.
Packingham, 104. Internal citations removed.
19.
Packingham, 108.
20.
Lochner v. New York 198 U.S. 45 (1905).
21.
U.S. Constitution, Art. I., section 8.
22.
See Genevieve Lakier, “The First Amendment’s Real Lochner Problem.” 87 University of Chicago Law Review 1241–1343 (2020).
23.
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 391 (1937).
24.
See, Fiss, supra note 15.
25.
In 2018, Of the roughly 9.5 billion “monthly active users” of social media, five platforms (Facebook, Youtube, WhatsApp, WeChat, and Instagram) accounted for roughly 7.5 billion—78.9%. See “The Rise of Social Media.” https://ourworldindata.org/rise-of-social-media. 18 September 2019. Last Accessed 16 August 2024.
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https://www.loc.gov/item/2016298176/.

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Rush, M. (2025). NetChoice v. Paxton: Navigating and Refereeing Freedom of Speech in Cyberspace. In: Schweber, H. (eds) SCOTUS 2024. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78551-1_10

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