Texas

Tom Olohan | May 29, 2024

MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider called out Big Tech for censorship, discrimination and election interference during a hearing at the Texas Capitol. 

During a May 29 hearing of the Texas Senate Committee on State…

Catherine Salgado | January 26, 2024

Eighteen states are taking a firm stand for free speech against Big Tech censorship.

In the cases Big Tech front group NetChoice has against Florida and Texas, NetChoice has attempted to fight against the states’ anti-censorship laws.…

Tim Kilcullen | 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…

Catherine Salgado | September 29, 2023

Yelp is reportedly discriminating against pro-life pregnancy centers on its website and app.

Crisis pregnancy resource centers specifically exist to help pregnant women and their babies, but Yelp appears to have jumped on the bandwagon of…

Luis Cornelio | April 7, 2023

Leftist Big Tech giant Google’s attempt to get off scot-free over its alleged misuse of Texas consumers' data proved unsuccessful.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) celebrated a victory Thursday in its legal fight…

Autumn Johnson | February 14, 2023

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has launched an investigation into the censorship operations of Big Tech platforms, including Google, Meta, Twitter, TikTok and others.

In a letter to the companies, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on…

Autumn Johnson | 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…

Catherine Salgado | January 5, 2023

Ex-Enron executive and billionaire John Arnold is under fire from Texas Republicans for reportedly funneling millions into groups trying to censor supposed “disinformation.” Ironically, Enron is the same company that went bankrupt from corruption…

Catherine Salgado | 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,…

Autumn Johnson | October 14, 2022

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a stay Wednesday that will temporarily prevent a Texas law aimed at protecting free speech online from taking effect.

Passed a year ago, HB 20 would prevent social media companies…

Autumn Johnson | September 18, 2022

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld Texas's “free speech” law on Friday, which would prevent social media companies from censoring certain viewpoints online.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that the ruling was a…

Autumn Johnson | May 31, 2022

The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a Texas law that aims to prevent discriminative censorship on social media platforms.

The decision did not rule on the merits of the law but instead placed it on hold until federal courts decide…

Kayla Sargent | March 31, 2021

Congress has remained locked in a stalemate over how to tackle Big Tech tyranny. Meanwhile, state governments have stepped up and decided to take matters into their own hands where the federal government has failed.

The partisan gridlock…

Kayla Sargent | 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…

Kayla Sargent | January 14, 2021

Despite Big Tech’s efforts to silence conservatives on Parler, one state’s Attorney General will not stand for it. 

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has demanded answers from several Big Tech companies about the suppression…

Joseph Vazquez | April 15, 2020

Liberal outlet Politico exploited the coronavirus-induced "economic meltdown" and translated it into a political tool to be used by Democrats against Republicans to win races in Texas.

In an absurd story headlined,…