Texas passes social media 'de-platforming' law
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Re: Texas passes social media 'de-platforming' law
#2Texas laws are either very strange, or badly communicated or possibly both. Somehow I "get" what they might be trying to do, but the first Satanist refused writing on a Christian ethics forum is hours away...
Re: Texas passes social media 'de-platforming' law
#3Texas laws are either very strange, or badly communicated or possibly both. Somehow I "get" what they might be trying to do, but the first Satanist refused writing on a Christian ethics forum is hours away...
that is a good law... or at least a good start
Re: Texas passes social media 'de-platforming' law
#4Abbot admitting that the purpose of the law is to force unwilling private entities to promote conservative viewpoints is likely to be front and center in the ruling striking it down as an overt free speech violation. That's the part you are supposed to at least make opponents catch you saying privately to a friendly audience to prove their point...
Re: Texas passes social media 'de-platforming' law
#5Am I missing something, or is this a clear cut reversal the first time this law finds itself in front of the Supreme Court?
Re: Texas passes social media 'de-platforming' law
#6Texas laws are either very strange, or badly communicated or possibly both. Somehow I "get" what they might be trying to do, but the first Satanist refused writing on a Christian ethics forum is hours away...
Texas judges will rule that blasphemy is not protected speech unless it’s Christian.
Re: Texas passes social media 'de-platforming' law
#7Am I missing something, or is this a clear cut reversal the first time this law finds itself in front of the Supreme Court?
Legislation is mostly performance art there.
Re: Texas passes social media 'de-platforming' law
#8We'll see if it helps stop the blatant partisanship or not.
Re: Texas passes social media 'de-platforming' law
#9Am I missing something, or is this a clear cut reversal the first time this law finds itself in front of the Supreme Court?
Until you add some teeth to "Congress shall pass no law" beyond wasting everyone's time, this is a largely symbolic gesture.
Re: Texas passes social media 'de-platforming' law
#10We'll see if it helps stop the blatant partisanship or not.
So blatant Facebook PR is trying to distract people from the fact that 8 of the top 10 posts each day are from Breitbart et al
Yes, "conservative" accounts get banned more often than "progressive" ones. Or, at least, that's how it may appear if your definition of "conservative" is dominated by racism, misogyny, anti-semitism, and homophobia. Which isn't entirely wrong, obviously: traditionally, the ideology that despised all deviations from the norm just came with a different label, fascism.