- The Supreme Court is kicking two major cases back down to lower courts.
- The cases involved Texas and Florida laws challenging social-media companies' content moderation.
- By punting the cases to lower courts, SCOTUS effectively granted the companies a victory.
The Supreme Court isn't willing to blow up the internet just yet.
In a decision released Monday on a pair of cases concerning whether social-media companies can moderate content on their platforms, the Supreme Court kicked the cases back down to the lower courts in Texas and Florida.
But, in outlining why the lower courts need to reconsider the cases, the high court essentially granted a victory to social-media giants, a legal expert told Business Insider.