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This is a pretty scary threat to free speech. There also appears to be a blatant conflict of interest here, considering the owner of the "certain social platform" in question hasn't left the side of the president-elect in weeks and the Attorney General of Texas is directly aligned with the same two oligarchs - Musk and Trump. How is this anything other than using the power of the Texas State Government to run an exto…
FTFA: > Attorney General Paxton is investigating a possible coordinated plan or conspiracy to withhold advertising dollars from certain social media platforms by pressuring advertisers not to purchase online advertising space. Although companies are free to choose when and where they want to advertise, a conspiracy among companies along these lines can result in harm to competition and may violate the Texas Free Ente…
I think MLKJ and other participants in the Montgomery bus boycott were indicted on similar offenses.
Boycotts by people are fine. Market manipulation by criminal conspiracy is not.
And here's the WFA's post about it shutting GARM down: https://wfanet.org/knowledge/item/2024/08/09/wfa-discontinue...
From what I can tell, the World Federation of Advertisers formed GARM to push advertising platforms to take a more proactive role in dealing with misinformation. Naturally, with the way X has been going since the change in ownership, they have been hit hard by this kind of pushback and Elon Musk vowed to sue WFA for this. Seems like because he got involved, the rest of the republican leadership decided to as well as there's this Texas thing and a motion by the House republicans to do a similar investigation.
I really don't know what they expect to accomplish with this though. Do they think the government should force advertisers to buy ads on X or something?
This is a pretty scary threat to free speech. There also appears to be a blatant conflict of interest here, considering the owner of the "certain social platform" in question hasn't left the side of the president-elect in weeks and the Attorney General of Texas is directly aligned with the same two oligarchs - Musk and Trump. How is this anything other than using the power of the Texas State Government to run an exto…
Is this a weird Texas thing? Like how they sued Oprah for saying she wouldn't eat beef?
> AG Ken Paxton files 100th lawsuit against Biden administration https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2024/11/12/ag-ken-p... Yeah, it's theater and not to be taken seriously.
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I think MLKJ and other participants in the Montgomery bus boycott were indicted on similar offenses.
MLKJ wasn't forcing companies to not buy ad space on the buses, as I understand it. Boycotts by people are fine. Market manipulation by criminal conspiracy is not.
This is a pretty scary threat to free speech. There also appears to be a blatant conflict of interest here, considering the owner of the "certain social platform" in question hasn't left the side of the president-elect in weeks and the Attorney General of Texas is directly aligned with the same two oligarchs - Musk and Trump. How is this anything other than using the power of the Texas State Government to run an exto…
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Perhaps we should start giving investigations like this performing arts awards. The theater deserves recognition.
Given how a certain politician has whined about the Emmy awards, that seems sadly/weirdly possible now.