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I think the RESTRICT Act is the one being held up as the ban bill because it's bipartisan and considered most likely to 1) actually move to a vote because of that and 2) creates a legal framework for a ban rather than just implementing one which is likely to be unwound by a court and found unconstitutional without it

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Why is S.85 likely to be unwound by the courts? It's with a different committee and cites a different act for its legal authority.

Courts (especially the current SCOTUS) seem pretty wary of expanding executive authority granted ambiguously under acts like the "International Emergency Economic Powers Act." Just my 2c.

I agree with the sentiment but just wanted to note that this is a legislative bill. often the courts strike down executive action saying that they should get help from Congress, which they're doing here

Yes, and there is some specific text in there or another bill that has a carveout for platforms that promote speech or enable personal communications -- I believe it was originally to protect newspaper and radio but has been interpreted to also include social media platforms

Bill of attainder?

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