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Cite as:  603 U. S. ____ (2024) 

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ALITO, J., concurring in judgment 

555, p. 1.  And websites such as Discord,21 Reddit,22  Wik-
ipedia,23 and Yelp24 have filed amicus briefs claiming that
they may be covered by both the Texas and Florida laws. 

It is a mystery how NetChoice could expect to prevail on
a facial challenge without candidly disclosing the platforms 
that it thinks the challenged laws reach or the nature of the
content  moderation  they  practice.
  Without  such  infor-
mation,  we  have  no  way  of  knowing  whether  the  laws  at 
issue  here  “cover  websites  that  engage  in  primarily  non-
expressive conduct.”  Tr. of Oral Arg. in No. 22–277, at 34; 
see  also  id.,  at  126.  For  example,  among  other  things, 
NetChoice  has  not  stated  whether  the  challenged  laws 
reach  websites  like  WhatsApp25  and  Gmail,26  which  carry
messages instead of curating them to create an independ-
ent speech product.  Both laws also appear to cover Reddit27 

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21 Brief for Discord Inc. as Amicus Curiae 2, 21–27.  “Discord is a real 
time messaging service with over 150 million active monthly users who 
communicate  within  a  huge  variety  of  interest-based  communities,  or 
‘servers.’ ”  Id., at 1. 

22 Brief for Reddit, Inc., as Amicus Curiae 2.  Reddit is an online forum 
that allows its “users to establish and enforce their own rules governing 
what topics are acceptable and how those topics may be discussed . . . . 
The display of content on Reddit is thus primarily driven by humans— 
not by centralized algorithms.”  Ibid. 

23 Brief for Wikimedia Foundation as Amicus Curiae 2. 
24 Brief for Yelp Inc. as Amicus Curiae 3–4. 
25 About  WhatsApp,  WhatsApp,  https://whatsapp.com/about  (last  ac-

cessed Apr. 23, 2024). 

26 Secure,  Smart,  and  Easy  To  Use  Email,  Gmail,  https://google.com/ 

gmail/about (last accessed Apr. 23, 2024).

27 Reddit  Content  Policy,  Reddit,  https://www.redditinc.com/policies 
/content-policy (last accessed Apr. 23, 2024) (describing Reddit as a plat-
form that is run and moderated by its users).