The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The tech industry groups’ suit comes two weeks after Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the bill, and it follows a lawsuit that successfully blocked a similar rule in Florida. HB 20 is one of multiple state-level efforts to make companies like Facebook and Twitter leery of moderating the accounts of conservative users.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

unless they’re spam. The Texas law is one of several Republican efforts to scare web companies away from removing objectionable but lawful content, a fight conservative politicians have framed as an anti-censorship battle against companies that are akin to phone companies or other communications utilities.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

A company that has done this with some success is Reddit, which sets a “floor” of speech rules (no spam!) More conservative moderators have taken a heavy-handed approach to removing such posts — no non-shower thoughts in the shower thoughts forum ! but allows individual forums (called subreddits) to raise the “ceiling.”

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