Appeals court upholds decision barring Biden admin from colluding with Big Tech to censor

“…The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a lower court decision in Missouri v. Biden barring the federal government from working with social media companies to remove First Amendment-protected content.

“Defendants, and their employees and agents, shall take no actions, formal or informal, directly or indirectly, to coerce or significantly encourage social-media companies to remove, delete, suppress, or reduce, including through altering their algorithms, posted social-media content containing protected free speech,” the decision reads. “That includes, but is not limited to, compelling the platforms to act, such as by intimating that some form of punishment will follow a failure to comply with any request, or supervising, directing, or otherwise meaningfully controlling the social-media companies’ decision-making process.”…”