The Republicans Who Are Concerned About Big Tech Censorship Are Censoring Other Texans

[TexasTowelie]

The Texas Republican Party believes its views are being silenced by big tech. The Republican-led legislature passed a bill that prevents so-called deplatforming, where users are banned from YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

"Freedom of speech is under attack in Texas," said Gov. Greg Abbott when he signed the bill into law earlier this month.

Now Texans, including the Attorney General, can sue social media companies who ban users for their political views. But — based on his own words — Abbott isn’t interested in protecting all voices and views.

"It is now law that conservative viewpoints in Texas cannot be banned on social media," he said at the end of his video message announcing the law.

Read more: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2021/09/22/409138/the-republicans-who-are-concerned-about-big-tech-censorship-are-censoring-other-texans/

[walkingman]

1. Conservatives don't seem to understand that no one wants to listen to

their BS except nasty white people and religious nuts. They've been doing it for decades.