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originally posted by: Klassified
Good possibility AM (I hate it when you're right.), but at the same time this is a debate that could run on for years.
This^^^ You said what I was thinking, and said it better. BTW, quit reading my mind.
Personally, government should stick with delivering mail, providing roads and fighting wars.
Everything else? They should # off.
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: Klassified
This^^^ You said what I was thinking, and said it better. BTW, quit reading my mind.
Well darn! I thought I could sneak in and out of your brain and borrow just a smidgeon of your vast knowledge and wisdom without you noticing...
Silly me!!!
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) announced on Friday that he plans to sign a bill into law that would prohibit social media companies from censoring Texans’ viewpoints online, adding that censorship is “not going to be tolerated in Texas.
This is a privately owned and managed website. We are within our rights to establish standards by which we expect members to behave. These standards are clearly expressed in the Terms & Conditions which all have indicated they agree upon registration.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: DontTreadOnMe
Twitter also has terms and conditions. Doesn't this bill try to usurp, for example, ATS's and Twitter's right to enforce it's T&Cs, that its members agree to?
originally posted by: Lysergic
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: DontTreadOnMe
Twitter also has terms and conditions. Doesn't this bill try to usurp, for example, ATS's and Twitter's right to enforce it's T&Cs, that its members agree to?
Does ATS have special protections?
that oughta answer your question
originally posted by: Hypntick
There are laws against inciting violence, so this new TX law would not supersede that.
However there are not laws against discussing Nazism, it's protected 1st amendment speech. Same as there are no laws against believing and discussing the earth being flat, anti-vaccination, and other controversial yet stupid topics. This is to protect those who want (for whatever reason) to discuss on social media platforms things like election rigging, endorsement of political parties or persons, what constitutes a valid marriage, abortion stances, etc.