The Texas law, House Bill 20, bars social media platforms with at least 50 million active users from blocking, removing or “demonetizing” posts based on users’ views.
GOP lawmakers have for years maintained that social media platforms such as Twitter suppress conservative viewpoints. Texas and Florida have passed laws that allow users to sue those platforms for the alleged censorship, but those laws remain blocked for now.The U.S.
In Florida, the Stop Social Media Censorship Act came about shortly after former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account was suspended in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection event “Big Tech’s reign of endless censorship and their suppression of conservative viewpoints is coming to an end,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote in a September 2022 news release. “These massive corporate entities cannot continue to go unchecked as they silence the voices of millions of Americans. HB 20 was designed to protect every Texan wanting to fully express his or her First Amendment rights.
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