The Supreme Court just ducked a major decision in its social media ‘censorship’ cases

While the justices didn’t rule on the merits of the cases, they agreed that government efforts to control online speech represent a danger to free expression.

In a unanimous opinion Monday, the Supreme Court declined to rule on the constitutionality of laws in Florida and Texas that would require online platforms to publish political speech they would otherwise remove. While the justices declined to rule on the merits—instead vacating the lower courts’ rulings and sending both cases back to the lower courts for review—they agreed that government efforts to control what online platforms publish represents a threat to those platforms’ First Amendment rights.