Posted on 12/02/2021 7:58:40 PM PST by kiryandil
A federal judge in Austin Wednesday blocked Texas' social media censorship law, which prohibits large social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring users "based on their political viewpoints." The law, known as House Bill 20, was signed by Gov. Greg Abbott on Sept. 9 and set to take effect Thursday.
However, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman wrote in his ruling that the measure interferes with platforms' First Amendment right to moderate content disseminated on their platforms. Pitman called content moderation "the very tool that social media platforms employ to make their platforms safe, useful, and enjoyable for users."
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archived link to avoid giving the Houston Comical a click:
it is long past time for The States to tell the federal courts to go pound sand.
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This won’t get fixed by any state law.
Eventually, the big name social media websites will make themselves irrelevant.
The Twittsewer big splash today was censoring the American Heart Association as unreliable when it came to medical heart issues.
I think I get it:
The governor cannot deprive farcebook or twerper of their First Amendment right to deprive their subscribers’ of their First Amendment rights.
Yes, and FORTUNATELY, there was a Red Diaper Obama stooge in JUST THE RIGHT PLACE to step all over states rights in the matter.
As you can see from my earlier posts on this joodge, he appears to think he's running the state of Texas.
Those two other cases got smacked down by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, BTW.
“However, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman wrote in his ruling that the measure interferes with platforms’ First Amendment right to moderate content disseminated on their platforms. Pitman called content moderation “the very tool that social media platforms employ to make their platforms safe, useful, and enjoyable for users.””
230 does not give them the right to moderate. 230 says that social media platforms cannot be sued for content posted by others, that the platform is not responsible.
If they are moderating, that means the content there is APPROVED OF by them.
Let the lawsuits begin. This judge is an idiot.
Pitman is a homo, takes it right up the wazzoo from another man. Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Cornyn submitted his name. Because you know, their are no other men in West Texas to do the job who are normal family men.
What’s enjoyable about it? Oh, it’s the moderation. Since when has moderation ever been enjoyable?
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