No “rational or decent person would want to use social media for even a second” in the world created by Texas’ new social media law, says Mark Joseph Stern.
it is. I do think that a lot of the legislators who crafted and supported this bill have a pretty intense vendetta against social media companies that they are convinced are censoring Republican and conservative speech, and they feel this is the only way at this stage to push back, so that Republican voices can rise to the top where, under this view, they deserve to be and should be.
It seems to me like there are two ways to look at this overarching issue: from a content moderation standpoint or from a corporate free speech one. From a content moderation standpoint, these social media companies who have banded together here are basically saying what? “This would just turn us into a cesspool”?That’s the argument.
But the other argument that these platforms are making—and they are making them as an industry—is that the bills infringe on their corporate free speech. That turning over granular information about their algorithms to the state, for example, is government intrusion into their business. And that has led to a fascinating scrambling of traditional ideological views.
Normally conservatives love corporate speech because it mostly means spending money to help Republicans win elections, right? Here you might expect that if a corporation can spend unlimited money electing candidates, that it can also choose what kinds of expression it wants to present to its users. But we have seen some conservative judges say, “No, no, no. Quite the opposite.
That is the theoretical underpinning of these bills and of what conservative judges have put forth. That these companies, YouTube, for instance, is the railroad of the 21century, railroads were told by the government, “You are the only game in town, so you are not allowed to discriminate against passengers unless you have a really good reason.” And that’s what Republicans and conservative judges have argued here.
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