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Texas Opens Investigation into Conspiracy to Boycott Certain Social Platforms

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Re: Texas Opens Investigation into Conspiracy to Boycott Certain Social Platforms

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Post by RajT88 »

emilamlom wrote: post #23

For those that are out of the loop on all this, here's a Reuters article about the formation of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) from 2019: https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/advertisers-agenc... 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 adv…

> Do they think the government should force advertisers to buy ads on X or something?

Yes. Free market, you see.

Re: Texas Opens Investigation into Conspiracy to Boycott Certain Social Platforms

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Post by ClickClackSmack »

"conspiracy to boycott"...

So does this mean that people are planning to boycott, but haven't?

It's real simple, there is no conspiracy. Anyone with even half a working brain can see what a toxic cesspool social media platforms are becoming. An estimated 1 in 3 posts are done by bots now.

There's no conspiracy, people are leaving social media to make their lives better and less stressful. There's absolutely no law, anywhere, that people need to stay in abusive relationships...That's what social media has become for far too many people.

Re: Texas Opens Investigation into Conspiracy to Boycott Certain Social Platforms

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Post by archagon »

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #10
dboreham wrote: post #4

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.

I think it should absolutely be taken seriously now that Paxton's fascist friends are going to be in power. They will relish using the full force of the federal government to own the libs¹ in any way they can.

¹ Meaning: force people to listen to them, suppress dissent, evade justice, and generously enrich themselves along the way.

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Post by archagon »

cocacola1 wrote: post #5

The same Ken Paxton: > Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home in a truck driven by his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, to avoid being served a subpoena Monday, according to an affidavit filed in federal court. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/26/texas-attorney-gener...

Hypocrites, the lot of them.

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Post by cocacola1 »

Alupis wrote: post #39
jfengel wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The headline of the article states that it was considerably less under Obama and Bush. It's not an "every administration" thing.

I'm curious how you get "not an every administration thing" out of the headline: > State attorneys general have sued Trump's administration 138 times — nearly double those of Obama and Bush And sub-heading: > It's routine for attorneys general to sue the federal government, but experts say the sharp rise signifies the growing partisan and legal divide with Washington.

Paxton isn't suing an administration, he's suing another organization.

Re: Texas Opens Investigation into Conspiracy to Boycott Certain Social Platforms

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Post by jmye »

Texans getting exactly the government they’ve voted for and deserve.

Just too bad it’s going to be allowed to affect people outside the TX border. But hey, it’s the party of “freedom for me but not for thee”, so what did anyone expect. Certainly not integrity or honesty.

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Post by jrs235 »

archagon wrote: post #44
cocacola1 wrote: post #5

The same Ken Paxton: > Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home in a truck driven by his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, to avoid being served a subpoena Monday, according to an affidavit filed in federal court. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/26/texas-attorney-gener...

Hypocrites, the lot of them.

In the book that many of them claim to follow and read they were called Pharisees.
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