“It scares the crap out of me.”
Roth says he’s worried about the lawsuit trying to stop government agencies from working with platforms on moderation.
“It’s a chilling effect,” he said. Even with parts of the original ruling overturned, the communications haven’t started up again, he said. “The strategy works even when it loses in court.”
He sees a similar chilling effect happening across the tech landscape. “It’s what they’re doing to academics, folks working in government, to platforms themselves,” he says of people trying to stop content moderation.
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