Habeas Bogus: Federal Judge Suspends Texas Ban on Viewpoint Discrimination

Newsbusters ^ | 12/03/2021 | Alexander Hall

[DFG]

Protecting the right of people to be censored? A federal court blocked the Texas HB 20 law against social media censorship based on political view.

Texas House Bill 20 was enacted to stop platforms from censoring content merely for being the wrong political viewpoint, but U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman has put the law on ice for now. “Pitman granted an injunction filed by NetChoice and CCIA [Computer & Communications Industry Association] to put HB 20 on hold until the case is complete,” Reclaim The Net reported. “The judge argues that the law violates the First Amendment rights of social media companies.”

The Verge shared a copy of the order overturning the law where the judge proclaimed: “Social media platforms have a First Amendment right to moderate content disseminated on their platforms.” He held further that, “private companies that use editorial judgment to choose whether to publish content — and, if they do publish content, use editorial judgment to choose what they want to publish — cannot be compelled by the government to publish other content.”

[DFG]

Judge Pitman was appointed United States District Judge by President Obama in 2014.

https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/robert-lee-pitman/

[Dogbert41]

So according to Judge Pitman, Twitter and Facebook are officially publishers? Doesn't that put the whole ball of wax into the furnace?

[cuz1961]

Doesn’t that put the whole ball of wax into the furnace?
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One way one minute
The exact opposite the next

Depending.

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Rule of man
No rule of law

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