Lex Lumina Files Amicus Brief on Behalf of Online Platform Discord in Supreme Court’s Review of Florida and Texas Laws that Regulate Content Moderation
December 7, 2023 - Today Lex Lumina’s Rebecca Tushnet and Chris Sprigman, working with Discord’s inside counsel, filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court defending the associational interests of Discord's users and challenging recently enacted laws in Florida and Texas that regulate online services. Discord’s communities want and need assistance from centralized content moderation in order to support their communities. The Texas and Florida laws under review would interfere with Discord’s efforts to help Discord communities police themselves, in violation of the First Amendment. Read the brief here.