Tech companies are gaming out responses to the Texas social media law

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Experts said the Texas social media law, which bars tech companies from moderating content, could prove challenging for platforms to deal with.

by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit last month. Most of the options being floated would alter tech company services so dramatically that some experts have concluded they would be virtually impossible to execute, say lobbyists that work with the companies.

The strategizing falls into four general areas, the most radical of which includes the possibility of the companies shutting down their services entirely in Texas and potentially any other states where copycat bills have been introduced.

The experts likened the law to forcing Barnes & Noble bookstores to host copies of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf manifesto, or requiring newspapers such as The Washington Post to publish op-eds by self-proclaimed neo-Nazi candidates.

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Simple. Geoblock Texas. Problem solved and the average IQ of both networks will rise 15%.

we NEED to stop the radical religious zealots from destroying america! what do you want to bet that I would be censored if I started spreading lies about christianity? you guys do know that jesus was a baby eating pedophile right? like seriously, I have the proof!

They “moderate” big-time already. It’s called censorship, like Hunter stories. Retooling is hard when censorship hardwired in?

How about they just ignore it?

The Washington Post thinks only Radical Left-Wingers should have the Constitutional right to Free Speech, BOYCOTT Biased political Trash.

The big tech shill who wrote this piece should have her accounts suspended

Poor big tech! They only want to do what's right and protect the public, but free speech imperatives make it so gosh darn hard!

to sum up my opinion....excellent...hope they take the most extreme of options....

It's a great idea

U mean

Big Tec.

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