Posted on Sep 10, 2021

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signs social media "censorship" bill into law

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed a bill that aims to stop social media companies from banning users or nixing posts based solely on political opinions — the latest salvo by Republicans, who claim that these tech giants are censoring conservative users.

The new law requires social media companies with more than 50 million monthly users to disclose their content moderation policies and institute an appeals process. It would also require such social media companies to remove illegal content within 48 hours.

Under the state legislation, users may sue the platforms to get their accounts reinstated, and the Texas attorney general would be able to file suits on behalf of users.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signs social media "censorship" bill into law

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The government is trying to regulate business! This is tyranny! This is unconstitutionary! This is an attack on the rights of corporate personhood and must be stopped you guise!

SSgt Stephen Bramham

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I am sick and tired of any government agency at any level constantly sticking their nose in where it does not belong. I realize there is a time and place for some government regulations, but recently it has become absurd.
Why do we keep electing these wanna-be dictators to office? Why not term limits on all elected officials?
After seeing how the current administration is handling the Afghanistan issue I think you can reasonably assume the inmates are running the asylum.
God Save Us All.

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SSgt Stephen Bramham it’s especially disingenuous that Abbot, a man who belongs to a party that has as one of its core beliefs the idea of minimizing government intervention in private lives, has gone on such a spree of banning things while simultaneously more or less running an express lane to death row

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They talk about Biden while supporting this. Give me a break. Abbott is making Putin proud.

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SrA John Monette

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So these PRIVATE companies aren't allowed to say who and what can be posted? I thought the r's were so against censorship but they want to censor what our children can read, what a private company can do, what a woman can do with her body. Abbott and the rest of his party are becoming the definition of Big Brother.

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