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A messy, anti-free market bill regarding big tech regulations will probably get votes in the Texas House before the end of Tuesday. Senate Bill 12 requires social media companies to create acceptable use policies explaining what content is allowed, how users can report content violating said policies, and a live toll-free number, email address, or “relative complaint intake mechanism” for complaints. Also in the bill includes requiring at least one employee operating the toll-free complaint number, a quarterly report on enforcement efforts and procedures, and whether coordinated campaigns were involved in getting accounts banned. Barred users along with the Texas Attorney General can civilly sue companies if they believe social media companies violated the regulations
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In the past two years, Rep. Devin Nunes sued a Twitter cow, Fusion GPS, the Washington Post, CNN, Esquire, and McClatchy. But the California congressman was unable to exact just vengeance and billions of dollars from his critics by means of civil litigation. Damn you, First Amendment!
And so the indefatigable politician turned to Bill Barr’s Justice Department to rain hellfire down on his enemies. Or so it appears from a motion to quash a grand jury subpoena unsealed yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell.
According to Twitter’s filing, it received notice on October 1, 2020 of a grand jury subpoena to unmask the identity of the person behind an anonymous account, @NunesAlt, which regularly posts criticism of the controversial Republican to its 124,000 followers.
Roughly a year ago, social media giants began to pay a lot more attention to the content of the material their users post. This has taken many forms: throttling the spread of COVID misinformation like the Plandemic video; slapping a disclaimer on posts thought to be misleading about the election results; banning Parler from AWS; blocking the
New York Post from posting anything at all after their articles about Hunter Biden’s emails came out; even banning the President of the United States. Regardless of what you think about these actions–my own thoughts are a little complicated–one thing is abundantly clear: they are all legal.
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