The Hill reports, “The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals [in Texas] upheld a controversial Texas law that restricts companies’ ability to remove users or violative content on Friday. The court’s decision lifts a previous injunction put in place by the Supreme Court, allowing the embattled law to go into effect. ‘Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say. Because the district court held otherwise, we reverse its injunction and remand for further proceedings,’ the court said in its decision.” The only reason this is even an issue is because RepibliKKKlans, MAGA morons, evil evangelicals, and QAnon kooks are the vast majority of people spreading hate and propaganda on social media, so these (public) companies (not government entities) are censoring their content because the rest of the users are sick of the vitriol and lying. But conservatives are upset that they are getting kicked off and can’t be as hateful as they enjoy.
So what do they do? Lawmakers write laws to force companies to allow hate speech and lies, all in the name of the First Amendment. As usual, conservatives have no idea what the First Amendment, as well as the Second Amendment, really mean. The First Amendment prohibits the government from banning or infringing on (most) speech, especially political speech. Yet what these RepubliKKKlan legislatures want to do is to force hate speech on non-government entities, who are not very keen on doing so because it’s driving social media users away. But that’s probably just fine for RepibliKKKlans, MAGA morons, evil evangelicals, and QAnon kooks; they would rather be the only voices talking to each other on Facebook, Twitter, and the like. But whatever. I have no doubt that once SCOTUS gets a hold of this case, then forced hate speech and the right to spread propaganda will be the new normal. Welcome to stupid America, always one step closer to the end.