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Texas Legislature Considers Bill to Ban Social Media Censorship


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2021 Mar 6, 2:37pm   221 views  4 comments

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https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2021/03/06/texas-legislature-considers-bill-to-ban-social-media-censorship-n1430477

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the state legislature have taken up a bill that would ban social media from banning or censoring Texans based on their political viewpoints. The bill is Senate Bill 12, sponsored by state Sen. Bryan Hughes (R) of Mineola. Gov. Abbott held a press conference on Friday drawing attention to the bill.

SB 12 — the full text of which you may read here — says social media giants “may not censor a user, a user’s expression, or a user’s ability to receive the expression of another person based on: (1) the viewpoint of the user or another person; (2) the viewpoint represented in the user’s expression or another person’s expression; or (3) a user’s geographic location in this state or any part of this state. (b) This section applies regardless of whether the viewpoint is expressed on the interactive computer service or elsewhere.”

Joining Hughes as authors are a who’s who among the state senate’s conservatives, including Sens. Paul Bettencourt, Donna Campbell, Lois Kolkhorst, Jane Nelson, Charles Perry, Charles Schwertner, and Drew Springer. No Democrat has signed on to protect Texans from social media censorship.

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1   Hircus   2021 Mar 6, 3:31pm  

I'm not sure how much it will help, although I'm for it.

I feel like they intentionally write their rules and code of conduct biased, so that they can easily say they enforce the rules fairly. They just don't write the rules fairly.

For example, how they started censoring anything that was was at odds with official narrative of the WHO or CDC, or posts about election fraud. So, they could enforce those and still say they weren't censoring you due to your politics or viewpoint. But, by censoring topics that are key to the opposing narrative, and are only likely to be posted by people on one side, they still achieve their objectives.
2   Ceffer   2021 Mar 6, 5:57pm  

The states can lead us back at least partially to a constitutional condition if they have the spine to wake up and tell the foreign nation of DC to go fuck itself.
3   Patrick   2021 Mar 6, 6:22pm  

At the very least, though, it does draw attention to the problem.

Though ultimately the right solution is to never post to or read Twitter or Facebook or YouTube at all.
4   MMR   2021 Mar 7, 1:51am  

Patrick says
YouTube


Im not on twitter or Facebook but what is a good alternative for overall content than YouTube?

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