Can You Kick the Trolls Out Of Your Online Forum? U.S. Supreme Court to Decide
Should the governments of Texas and Florida decide whether and how online discussion sites can moderate their posts? Let’s say you have an online community about the town you live in, and someone starts posting off-topic messages about some other town or city, should you be able to remove those messages? Or if you have a Facebook Group discussing cars, and someone starts posting about politics, against your community rules,
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