A Republican senator called on the Supreme Court to finally address the rampant censorship targeting Americans’ speech on Big Tech platforms.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Tuesday filed a brief to the Court supporting Texas and Florida’s…
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September 29, 2023
After years of delay, the notoriously risk-averse Supreme Court will finally decide whether states have the right to protect free speech from Big Tech’s authoritarian censors.
In a Friday morning order, the U.S. Supreme Court announced…
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February 7, 2023
Don’t mess with Texas. Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) announced Monday that his state is implementing a plan to enforce its TikTok ban on state-owned devices.
Abbott cited increased security risks due to the app’s troubling ties…
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December 9, 2022
Texas has joined four other states in banning or partially blocking the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-tied TikTok for state agencies.
South Dakota, South Carolina, Nebraska and Maryland had already moved to ban TikTok for state agencies,…
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October 23, 2021
On Friday, a federal judge ruled that Texas can seek files on content moderation from Facebook and Twitter.
According to Bloomberg, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) can seek limited discovery from the Big Tech giants…
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September 23, 2021
NetChoice, a prominent tech trade group, is suing Texas over its anti-censorship law.
NetChoice alleges that the Texas law violates the First Amendment because it allows the government to compel platforms to host speech it doesn’t agree…
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September 10, 2021
Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) signed a bill into law that will protect Texans from being censored for merely expressing their opinions online.
Texas may just be one of the freest places in America to speak online after its governor signed a…
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September 2, 2021
In an attempt to land a knockout punch on Big Tech’s chin, the Texas Senate and House have passed a new bill that awaits Governor Greg Abbott’s (R) signature. The bill’s goal: to stop platforms from censoring users over their viewpoints.
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March 12, 2021
Everything is bigger in Texas, and state lawmakers have decided to step up where the federal government has failed. So it was in that spirit that the Texas legislature has introduced Senate Bill 12 and House Bill 3001. Both bills would limit…
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July 19, 2019
Elected officials are no longer allowed to tweet innocuous support for the United States Navy, if you believe Twitter.
Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott met with Twitter officials on July 15 to discuss why his tweet about the U.S.…
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