The State of Texas has temporarily lost it's attempt to stop private social media companies from blocking hate speech like neo-Nazi screeds, anti-Semitic conspiracies, and so forth, Politico reports. Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a stay of a right-wing Texas law -- HB 20 -- that would have allowed the state and individuals to sue those companies if they were blocked or banned for posting hate speech, i.e. conservative opinions according to the Texas attorney general, the corrupt Ken Paxton:
"The stay is a blow in particular for Paxton, who has vocally argued that companies like Twitter and Facebook censor conservatives online.
While far-right politicians — including former President Donald Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — claim their viewpoints are being unfairly repressed online, many liberals say the companies are not doing enough to remove hate speech and other extremist content."
It's telling that the types of far-right extremist, racist and pro-insurrection speech that those companies frequently block or ban are considered "conservative" opinions by Paxton.
The Supreme Court's action is also a blow to the right-wing 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which had earlier lifted an injunction against the state imposed by a District Court in Texas, which will now examine and rule on the law's merits and Constitutionality.
