5th Circuit Blocks Texas Law Requiring Websites to Filter Harmful Speech

In Friday's ruling, judges noted the difference between the age-verification requirement in the porn website case and the content-filtering rule in the new case. "Unlike the age-verification requirement we addressed in that case, \[the SCOPE Act's\] monitoring and filtering requirement is all about filtering content, and is thus preempted," they found. The 5th Circuit and other appeals courts "have interpreted Section 230 to provide DSPs with 'broad immunity' from 'all…