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BREAKING: I just secured a MASSIVE VICTORY for the Constitution & Free Speech in fed court: #BigTech CANNOT censor the political voices of ANY Texan!
Twitter ^ | 3:47 PM ยท Sep 16, 2022 | Attorney General Ken Paxton @KenPaxtonTX

Posted on 09/16/2022 6:39:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: bigtech; censorship; freespeech; internet; socialmedia; texas; twitter
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1 posted on 09/16/2022 6:39:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Paxton!


2 posted on 09/16/2022 6:41:44 PM PDT by lee martell ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bttt.

5.56mm


3 posted on 09/16/2022 6:43:52 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
These companies are long overdue for having their Section 230 liability protection removed. They've been censoring for decades which makes them content creators, not simply carriers.

They're also guilty of illegal political contributions-in-kind by censoring one side over the other. The members of their boards need to be arrested, charged, and forced to pay back every penny of such contributions going all the way back to their first illicit contributions in the 1990s.

4 posted on 09/16/2022 6:43:53 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Can we all identify as Texans to have the same protections?


5 posted on 09/16/2022 6:46:52 PM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

First, the ruling is from a federal court regarding a Texas case but the logic pertains to first amendment rights so this would seem to be not limited to residents of Texas as the headline suggests.

Second, the ruling overturns the lower court injunction on the statute but “remands for further proceedings”. Not a lawyer but this sounds like they are saying “the law remains in force while the case works its way through the courts” as opposed to “the law is blocked until while the case works its way through the courts”. Lawyers, am I reading that right?


6 posted on 09/16/2022 6:49:37 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. FBI is tending in that direction." - Harry Truman)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

ah gee. This still wont quell the many Paxton haters on FR. s/


7 posted on 09/16/2022 6:55:41 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It would be great if this sets a precedent so big tech can’t do this in any state.


8 posted on 09/16/2022 6:55:42 PM PDT by Boomer ( What's the difference between Nazi Germany in 1932 and the USA in 2022? 5k miles and 90 years.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Thank you Ken Paxton for your hard work, staying on truth until you WIN!!!!

He already had my vote.


9 posted on 09/16/2022 7:00:11 PM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl ( )
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To all the little Commie sh!tstains shrieking about this ruling: plenty of people better than you have killed and died for the right to free speech. You ready to pick up a rifle and kill and die to take it from us? Or you gonna talk smack and expect someone else to take it from us? Nut up or shut up.


10 posted on 09/16/2022 7:16:11 PM PDT by quikstrike98
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I have read through the whole decision. It is one of the most lucidly reasoned judicial decisions I can recall reading.

Judge Oldham deserves high praise from all freedom lovers, everywhere.


11 posted on 09/16/2022 7:17:34 PM PDT by TheConservator (Beware the tyranny of the woke mob. There has never been a greater threat to liberty.)
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To: Boomer

Given that the 11th Circuit recently issued a decision striking down a somewhat similar Florida statue, and the 5th Circuit specifically disagreed with some of the 11th Circuit’s reasoning, I think this creates a split among the Circuits such that this will likely wind up in the Supreme Court.


12 posted on 09/16/2022 7:19:30 PM PDT by TheConservator (Beware the tyranny of the woke mob. There has never been a greater threat to liberty.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Thank you Mr. Attorney General.......you’ll have my vote once again and I look forward to you running and winning the Governorship in the near future!!!!


13 posted on 09/16/2022 7:21:28 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: Betty Jane

sure, use a VPN...


14 posted on 09/16/2022 7:32:19 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: M Kehoe

So any Fakebook users need to now immediately log into Fakebook, and change your location and address to Texas.


15 posted on 09/16/2022 7:37:44 PM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: TheConservator

That makes sense. The question is if big tech will get a stay long enough to get through the midterms.

Probably but I can’t see any harm in removing the overreaching censorship they have been doing. Yes; I’ve been a victim of that nonsense too.


16 posted on 09/16/2022 7:56:02 PM PDT by Boomer ( What's the difference between Nazi Germany in 1932 and the USA in 2022? 5k miles and 90 years.)
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To: quikstrike98

I doubt you are talking to anyone on FR.

Are you?


17 posted on 09/16/2022 7:58:43 PM PDT by Boomer ( What's the difference between Nazi Germany in 1932 and the USA in 2022? 5k miles and 90 years.)
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To: pepsi_junkie

I hope so. Block censorship by big tech!


18 posted on 09/16/2022 7:59:25 PM PDT by Boomer ( What's the difference between Nazi Germany in 1932 and the USA in 2022? 5k miles and 90 years.)
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To: T.B. Yoits
These companies are long overdue for having their Section 230 liability protection removed. They've been censoring for decades which makes them content creators, not simply carriers.

Ain't gonna happen so long as the companies continue to serve as DNC handmaidens.

19 posted on 09/16/2022 8:00:34 PM PDT by Robwin ( )
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“I doubt you are talking to anyone on FR.

Are you?”

Absolutely not. But I am aware others read this. So what’s it gonna be? Freedom of speech was important enough for my family to come here in 1776 to kill tyrant minions. Important enough for my Dad’s uncle to nuke two Japanese cities. Important enough for my Dad to flatten another city. Important enough for me to serve my country as a Marine to kill and die to protect our freedoms of speech and worship. They like to talk a lot of smack about expanding the courts etc. Okay, do something. Please. If you’re so brave to talk about taking my free speech rights, bring it to the streets and let us see how brave you are.


20 posted on 09/16/2022 8:07:53 PM PDT by quikstrike98
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