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It already passed, it's a law on the books in Texas. And now it's been upheld at by both trial and circuit courts. FWIW: there's one last chance at SCOTUS to
by ajross 4y ago
It already passed, it's a law on the books in Texas. And now it's been upheld at by both trial and circuit courts.
FWIW: there's one last chance at SCOTUS to undo this, but if that doesn't work out what we're almost certain to see instead of "pre-filtering" is just "No Tweeting from Texas".
- robust-cactus 4y agoIt's kinda interesting how a world like "no tweeting from Texas" might jive with EU laws which want to restrict IO and data storage to just inside the region or country. Are we about to get more decentralized just because the laws are accidentally forcing us to? Imagine connecting to EU or Texas Twitter to see what's going on there.
- mwint 4y agoOh, it’s not accidental.
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- ben_w 4y agoIt’s not accidental. I don’t see how the old “Wild West” era of the internet was ever going to be compatible with any two sovereign nations that had even a minuscule difference of opinion about any of copyright and database rights, privacy, obscenity, hacking, incitement, libel, or anything else that might come broadly under the heading of “free speech”.
- encryptluks2 4y agoMaybe they can finally secede and take Elon with them.
- taylodl 4y agoSimple. Shut off Texas. You don’t have a right to use social media. I wouldn’t even appeal the decision. Let Texas lie in the bed they made.
- mythrwy 4y agoIf Texas were shut off from social media, would net mental health and productivity of Texans increase? I say we do the experiment and find out!
- thechao 4y agoMy exurban Texan neighbors wouldn't be able to post their dog whistles on the neighborhood FB page. Oh! Woe is me!
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- colinmhayes 4y agoI seriously do not.
- efitz 4y ago“Othering” has moved from race to political viewpoint, but the human tendency to exclude others from discourse/commerce/society is still alive and well.
- joshuamorton 4y agoDo you consider it othering based on political viewpoint when us companies block European access for gdpr reasons?
- SantalBlush 4y ago>“Othering” has moved from race to political viewpoint No it hasn't. People have been othered for either reason for millennia, and continue to be so. This is probably one of the safest eras for having an unpopular political view in the US. For example, try being accused of holding communist views during most of the 20th century.
- galangalalgol 4y agoNo tweeting from Texas sounds like a great idea! We can expand it to no tweeting from anywhere after we see the effects on Texans. Then I bknow the popular nexts step would be to get rid of FB and Instagram, but I'm in favor of dissolving Pinterest first. It is like charlie and the football everytime I follow a link from an image search looking for something only to notice it was Pinterest right afterwards but before it loads, realizing I am about to be hounded to load an app, then log in, and then be shown that image is no longer part of Pinterest.
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- DannyBee 4y agoActually, they will likely ask for en banc first. This is just a three judge panel
- houstonn 4y agoThe obvious byproduct is their happiness and productivity would increase, and other states would swiftly copy them to remain competitive. Then social media would have to respond to that.
- aliasxneo 4y agoThe apparent disdain for Texas in this thread is bizarre.
- cddotdotslash 4y agoI mean… it’s the state that implemented this law. So we’re not talking about Montana or something here.
- yieldcrv 4y agoI’m a big fan of simply exiting sovereign markets that are not worth it and would like to see corporations do this more frequently It is very easy for private sector of almost any size to remind sovereigns about overplaying their hand
- the_jeremy 4y agoAs a not-Texan, almost all of what I hear about Texas is oil, conservatism, failed power systems during winter, anti-abortion-rights, and using immigrants as political theater by sending them to DC/NY. I don't know that the disdain is unexpected given the political leaning of people working in technology.
- sacrosancty 4y agoYou're probably living in a filter bubble. You'd be hearing only the same kind of things about California if you were in a different bubble.
- themitigating 4y agoWhataboutisn. He didn't claim what he heard was true. He didn't say he doesn't hear things about other states. Nor did he make a judgment about Texas. He only offered a possible explanation to the gp
- the_jeremy 4y agoI get most of my national news from NPR. What news am I missing about Texas? I guess I forgot the Uvalde school shooting police response in my list. I do hear bad things about California - homelessness, drug use, lots of petty theft that doesn't get prosecuted, ridiculously expensive housing, NIMBYs - but that's unrelated.