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6 J. Free Speech L. 1 (2025-2026)

handle is hein.journals/jfspl6 and id is 1 raw text is: BEYOND THE EDITORIAL ANALOGY: FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTIONS FOR PLATFORM CONTENT MODERATION AFTER MOODY V. NETCHOICE Kyle Langvardt & Alan Z. Rozenshtein Introduction..................................................................................................................... 2 I. T he R oad to M oody ......................................................................................... . 4 A. The Doctrine of Editorial Discretion............................................... 4 B. The Texas and Florida Law s .................................................................. . 9 1. T exas's H .B . 20 ........................................................................... . 10 2. Florida's S.B . 7072....................................................................... . 11 II. The Moody Decision ...........................................................................................13 A . Justice Kagan's M ajority O pinion ...........................................................15 B. Justice Barrett's C oncurrence...................................................................18 C. Justice Alito's Concurrence in the Judgment .........................................19 III. What Moody Does and Doesn't Establish .................................................. 20 A. Facial Challenges to Platform Regulation ...............................................21 1. The decline of facial challenges as a tech industry strategy ........ 21 2. Impact on the development of First Amendment doctrine........24 B. Moody's Substantive First Amendment Guidance .......................... 25 1. When does the First Amendment protect content m oderation ? .............................................................................. . 26 Associate Professor of Law, University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law; Associate Pro- fessor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School. For helpful comments we thank Ash Bhagwat, Jill Hasday, Eugene Volokh, and workshop participants at the University of Minnesota Law School, and for excellent research assistance we thank Kelli Johnson. 1