GOP Senator urges SCOTUS to rein in big tech's content censorship, defies 'logic'

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FIRST ON FOX - Senator Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is urging the Supreme Court to not buy into arguments from Big Tech platforms that they should have First Amendment protections to censor user content while simultaneously demanding legal liability from content posted on their platforms.

Next month, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a set of cases that question whether state laws that limit Big Tech companies’ ability to moderate content on their platforms curbs the companies’ First Amendment liberties.

The Missouri Republican filed an amicus brief in the cases Tuesday arguing that the platforms are attempting to have their cake and eat it, too, by wanting to keep liability protections granted by congress for content on their sites, and simultaneously asking for unfettered ability to censor content, citing their First Amendment liberties.

The court "should not bless the platforms’ contradictory positions, much less constitutionalize them," Hawley argued, and that "doing so would effectively immunize the platforms from both civil liability in tort and regulatory oversight by legislators."

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The cases before the high court stem from two separate laws that passed in Florida and Texas that would require large Big Tech companies like X, formerly