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The 50m people provision just means that social media companies only need to create a “Texas Edition” offshoot that only allows 49m users at a time. This would
by wfhordie 4y ago
The 50m people provision just means that social media companies only need to create a “Texas Edition” offshoot that only allows 49m users at a time. This would not be discrimination based location, because it would only allow Texans to sign up. Nobody outside of Texas would have standing to sue.
- Traster 4y agoThey can create a Texas edition, but they can't make their non-Texas edition unavailable in Texas. So they'll still be subject to law suits based on their main edition.
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- wfhordie 4y agoI believe they could. Twitter: Texas Edition is still Twitter. They are not being deprived of Twitter as a service for their geographical location, only being served a different version of it. Which is already true. The engagement algorithm already biases local content. Besides which, Twitter need only open a nominal office in each state, make 50 different Twitter editions, and then choose which ones get to talk to each other. All of those little twitters will be less than 50m users, because no state has 50m people. One thing is for certain, this law will not work out the way they planned. That’s inevitable because the government doesn’t know Twitter better than Twitter. Most likely outcome, though, is that moderation changes so that the rules are different for users with Texas IPs, and those normal “censorship” outcomes populate for anyone not on a Texas IP address.
- Traster 4y ago>A social media platform may not censor a user, a user’s expression, or a user’s ability to receive the expression of another person based on: So not only are they at fault if they prevent your tweets from being seen, they're at fault if they prevent someone in Texas seeing your tweets. Which would prevent what you're suggesting.