It’s always astounding to me how little most policymakers consider how many of the policies they push for contradict one another. On Wednesday, the Texas Senate easily approved its version of HB20, the blatantly unconstitutional bill that tries to prevent social media websites from moderating content that Texas Republicans want kept up — explicitly saying that Facebook must leave up vaccine misinformation, terrorist content, and Holocaust denialism. While the bill does include some language to suggest that some content can be moderated, it puts a ton of hurdles up to block that process. Indeed, as the bill makes clear, it does not want Facebook to moderate anything.
The legislature finds that:
(1) each person in this state has a fundamental interest in the free exchange of ideas and information, including the freedom of others to share and receive ideas and information;
(2) this state has a fundamental interest in protecting the free exchange of ideas and information in this state;
Of course, you may have also heard the other big of news out of Texas this week, which is that after the Supreme Court refused to block it, Texas’ extreme anti-choice law has gone into effect, more or less banning all abortions. But the law goes even further than that. It also says you cannot “aid and abet” someone getting an abortion, and “aiding and abetting” is defined quite broadly under the law:
Any person, other than an officer or employee of a state or local governmental entity in...
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