The debate between those who want large social media platforms to moderate more and those who want them to moderate less has been growing over the last few years, and it is not poised to slow down any time soon.

This year, two states—Texas and Florida—tried to navigate the litigation landscape around content moderation by using a matching argument: social media companies, in this case, Twitter, should operate under the same First Amendment restrictions as “common carriers” like telegraph or telephone companies. To be sure, doing so would curtail their content moderation capabilities.

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