{"id":1195151,"date":"2023-10-23T12:29:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1195151"},"modified":"2023-10-23T12:29:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T16:29:11","slug":"scotus-blocks-order-that-said-biden-admin-cant-coerce-social-media-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1195151","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS blocks order that said Biden admin can\u2019t \u201ccoerce\u201d social media firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/getty-biden-800x536-2.jpg\" alt=\"President smiles while sitting at a table during a meeting.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/getty-biden.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1674\" data-width=\"2500\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> US President Joe Biden during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Supreme Court has blocked an injunction that would prevent the Biden administration from pressuring social media firms to take down content. Justices agreed to hear the Biden administration&#8217;s appeal of the injunction, which will be stayed until the high court issues a ruling that could either uphold the injunction or block it permanently.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to grant the stay and hear the administration&#8217;s appeal was issued in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/23pdf\/23a243_7l48.pdf\">order Friday<\/a>. The court previously <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2023\/09\/supreme-court-considers-limits-on-white-house-contacts-with-social-media\/\">issued a temporary stay<\/a> while it considered whether to hear the case, so the injunction has not been enforced.<\/p>\n<p>Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch dissented, arguing that the stay &#8220;allows the defendants to persist in committing the type of First Amendment violations that the lower courts identified. The majority takes this action in the face of the lower courts&#8217; detailed findings of fact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1977893#p3\">Read 12 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1977893&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1977893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SCOTUS blocks order that said Biden admin can\u2019t \u201ccoerce\u201d social media firms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ US President Joe Biden during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) The Supreme Court has blocked an injunction that would prevent the Biden administration &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1195151\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1195153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1195151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1195151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1195153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1195151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1195151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1195151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}