Snap Wants to be a State Actor??–Kansas v. Snap

North America Health Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:52:11 GMT Moderate confidence — 64/100

For decades, private Internet services have uniformly tried to avoid being legally characterized as government actors.
If they become state actors, they must comply with Constitutional restrictions–meaning the Constitutionally required freedoms of speech and press would extend to their user-authors and overlay the services’ content moderation decision.
That would turn every content moderation decision into litigation-bait, and few if any Internet services could handle the litigation onslaught that would follow.

For decades, private Internet services have uniformly tried to avoid being legally characterized as government actors.
If they become state actors, they must comply with Constitutional restrictions–meaning the Constitutionally required freedoms of speech and press would extend to their user-authors and overlay the services’ content moderation decision.
That would turn every content moderation decision into litigation-bait, and few if any Internet services could handle the litigation onslaught that would follow.

Sources: Ericgoldman