I guess to anyone who hadn't had experience with moderating a popular social media platform or talked to anyone who has. Was that really so shocking?
> it was in fact unconstitutional
Nice of the government to step up to the plate and give those of us who've been on the corporate side of this some guidance, for once. Most of what companies get from Congress and the Court is radio silence on the topic (ironically, I suspect, so the government isn't credibly accused of violating a corporation's First Amendment rights by telling them how they can and cannot moderate). So it's nice for the courts to step up and tell companies that the thing the executive said they had to do, no, they don't have to do; that'll be helpful moving forward.
Yes, I saw. It's nice for the Courts to finally give some guidance to corporations on when they should and should not follow the signal from the Executive; without it, they're pretty much on their own to guess at the Constitutionality of requests or demands.
> the most recent decision that it was in fact unconstitutional.
This is not really what the decision states. The government can request all it wants but it cannot partake in "threatening, pressuring, or coercing social-media companies in any manner to remove, delete, suppress, or reduce posted content of postings containing protected free speech".
I'm personally OK with the government requesting things to be moderated; I'm not OK with the aforementioned methods if the request isn't backed by law.
This is highly revelational and currently being litigated with the most recent decision that it was in fact unconstitutional.