The Texas Senate last week approved a bill that would
allow the state attorney general to sue social media platforms over charges of
blocking users or erasing posts because of their content, the Austin
American-Statesman reported.
Senate Bill 2373 was inspired by claims from
conservatives and conservative groups of discriminatory treatment, according to
Sen. Bryan Hughes, the Republican author of the bill, the paper reported.
The proposed legislation would apply to social
media firms that say they’re impartial.
“If you hold yourself out as being an open
forum and that you don’t discriminate based on viewpoint, then you have to keep
your word,” Hughes said.
The Senate voted 18-12 to send SB 2373 to the
Texas House of Representatives.
According to the bill, a social media firm
could not be penalized for restricting content it “reasonably considers to be
obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise
objectionable,” the paper reported.
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