"X" Platform
Sues California Over Content Supervision Rules
The lawsuit in the Sacramento Federal Court deals with the ABB 587 Act
which came into force a year ago
and mandates social media networks to
publish their rules on misinformation, harassment, hate speech
or extremism
and California Governor Gavin Newsom said when signing the law that
the people of California deserve to know
how these platforms affect our public discourse.
However
according to the former Twitter platform X :
the "true intention" of the text is to "press the platforms to remove some of
the contents guaranteed by the Constitution, which the mandate sees as a problem".
Lawyers for
the San Francisco-based platform contend that
the law "A587 violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution"
which guarantees freedom of expression, and the California Constitution.
After Elon Musk :
acquired Twitter in October 2022
he quickly changed its modus operandi, starting with content stewardship
and the American billionaire adopts a radical vision of free speech.
With ABB 587 :
the state is forcing social media networks to
take a general position on controversial issues or political issues," X wrote.
Because X must take :
a position on these matters as defined by the mandate
- it (X) is forced to adopt the politically charged terminology of the mandate
- which constitutes a form of speech imposed per se"
- according to the counsel for the podium.
Elon Musk recently
threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League
("ADL", which combats anti-Semitism and racism)
accusing it of defamation, holding it responsible for the company's lost revenue.
US billionaire Elon Musk and his "X" platform face
more than 2,200 arbitration cases linked to
the sweeping changes that
followed his acquisition last year on Twitter according to the court filing.
Former Twitter employees accuse Musk of :
denying them the promised end-of-service bonus after significant
job cuts and delaying their arbitration cases by not paying
the corresponding registration fee, according to CNBC, which first aired the news.
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