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

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ALITO, J., concurring in judgment 

disclosure  provisions,  which  require  only  that  platforms
publish  their  censorship  policies,  met  the  intermediate-
scrutiny standard set forth in Zauderer v.  Office of Disci-
plinary  Counsel  of  Supreme  Court  of  Ohio,  471  U.  S.  626 
(1985).  34 F. 4th, at 1230.  The Eleventh Circuit therefore 
vacated  the  portion  of  the  District  Court’s  order  that  en-
joined  the  enforcement  of  those  general-disclosure  provi-
sions, while affirming all the rest of the injunction.  Id., at 
1231. 

B 
1 

Around  the  same  time  as  the  enactment  of  the  Florida 
law, Texas adopted a similar measure, H. B. 20, which co-
vers “social media platform[s]” with more than 50 million
monthly users in the United States.  Tex. Bus. & Com. Code 
Ann.  §120.002(b)  (West  2023).  The  statute  defines  a 
“ ‘[s]ocial media platform’ ” as an “[i]nternet website or ap-
plication that is open to the public, allows a user to create 
an account, and enables users to communicate with other 
users for the primary purpose of posting information, com-
ments, messages, or images.”  §120.001(l).  Unlike Florida’s 
broader  law,  however,  Texas’s  statute  does  not  cover 
internet-service  providers,  email  providers,  and  websites
that “consis[t] primarily of news, sports, entertainment, or
other information or content that is not user generated but 
is preselected by the provider.”  §120.001(1)(C)(i).

To ensure “the free exchange of ideas and information,” 
H. B.  20  requires  regulated  platforms  to  abide  by  the  fol-
lowing  content-moderation  and  disclosure  requirements.
Act of Sept. 2, 2021, 87th Leg., 2d Called Sess., ch. 3. 

Content-moderation provisions.  H. B. 20 prevents social-
media companies from “censoring” users—that is, acting to
“block, ban, remove, deplatform, demonetize, de-boost, re-
strict,  deny  equal  access  or  visibility  to,  or  otherwise  dis-
criminate against”—based on their viewpoint or geographic