The Jamesian Republic wrote:Gravlen wrote:Texas appeals court reinstated blatantly unconstitutional Texas social media law without explanation.So… what does this mean? Well, Texas is now a mess for any social media company. Operating in Texas and daring to do something as basic as stopping harassment and abuse on your platform now opens you up to significant litigation and potential fines. It strips editorial discretion, the right to cultivate your own community, and much much more that is fundamentally necessary to running a website with 3rd party content.
The Texas law forces social media companies to operate in Texas (on threat of lawsuits for geographic censorship), and allows them to be sued for every possible moderation decision.What does that mean in practice? First, even if there is a good and justifiable reason for moderating the content — say it’s spam or harassment or inciting violence — that really doesn’t matter. The user can simply claim that it’s because of their viewpoints — even those expressed elsewhere — and force the company to fight it out in court.
There's a lot of other goodies in this law, like how it makes a lot of spam filtering illegal.
When do we bring democracy to Texas?
They already have it.