The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reinstated a law that says that a user can’t be censored based on their “viewpoint.”
At another point in the hearing, “Judge Andrew Oldham suggested that if the tech platforms succeeded, it would allow phone companies to kick off users,” Protocol reported. “Under your theory, could Verizon decide that they're going to overhear every phone call … and when they hear speech they don't like, they terminate the phone call?” Oldham asked.
Telephone companies are classified as common carriers and regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. No such designation has been applied to websites, though Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas hasCNN tech reporter Brian Fung also detailed the Fifth Circuit judges' confusion in a.
Jones is a Reagan appointee, while Oldham was appointed by Trump. The third judge in the panel, Leslie Southwick, was appointed by George W. Bush.hearing with all the court's judges or eventually go to the Supreme Court. They could also wait for the trial to play out in US District Court for the Western District of Texas, where Judge Robert Pitman issued the preliminary injunction.
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