Texas Opens Investigation into Conspiracy to Boycott Certain Social Platforms
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Texas Opens Investigation into Conspiracy to Boycott Certain Social Platforms
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#4Is this a weird Texas thing? Like how they sued Oprah for saying she wouldn't eat beef?
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#5The 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...
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#6I cannot get into it, plus I am getting a cert issue. I guess the Gov of Texas has no idea how to run a site. But they can arrest people for boycotting ?
I can only assume this has to do with people leaving Twitter, which I did a week ago.
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#8FTFA:
> 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 Enterprise and Antitrust Act of 1983. The civil investigative demand requests documents and information related to WFA [World Federation of Advertisers] and its sub-organization known as the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (“GARM”) organizing their membership to potentially boycott social media platforms that are deemed to violate their “Brand Safety Standards.”
It doesn't seem so far fetched that an organization called Global Alliance for Responsible Media would support a boycott of platforms they don't think are their brand of "responsible". If they coordinated that boycott, then they could be in actual trouble.
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#9This 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 extortion racket, designed to funnel money straight to Musk?
Corporations are allowed to choose where they want to spend their advertising budget, and if they don't want to have their ads showing between conspiracy theories and outright hate, that's allowed.
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#10Is 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.