Tattoo it on them right away. Then just roll up your sleeve if you’re ever asked. And that guy challenging votes-it’s not a stupid idea. Just deeply shitty.
Sorry if it’s already been posted, but Texas Republicans have passed an “exciting” new law aimed at social media. I’m sure it will be fine.
I do wonder how long that lasts when Texas voters go to watch kitten videos and get a splash screen explaining that, due to this legislation, YouTube no longer operates in Texas, and their gmail account is completely unusable due to being flooded with spam.
Hey! I’m watching kitten videos RIGHT NOW! Fortunately, I don’t have a gmail account.
Nope!
"The only way out of this mess, then, would be for social media companies to cease all operations in Texas. But H.B. 20 orders them to continue providing their services in Texas. "
So the pro-business, less regulation GQP is actually FORCING companies to distribute their product. I assume the logical conclusion is you can’t even cease to make a product. You’re trapped forever, making buggy whips with no market, because Abbot says so.
Hell exists, and its name is Texas.
Orders them to, or what? If a company refuses to comply, do they get banned from doing business in Texas?
It’s never surprising that when someone says the dumbest shit you’ve ever heard, they’re doing it before a Trump banner.
You can’t fault their consistency.
I don’t see how a state can enforce a law demanding that a company do business within its state.
While I think (hope, anyway, with this current crop of SCOTUSes), that the law will be shot down on any number of grounds, even if the law holds on that front, there is no way that that part could be enforced.
It’s a state law, which means that they can only sue in state court. Which would make it hard for them to sue a company that does not do business in that state.
Though you aren’t wrong on that last part.
I mean, right now, the sensible move for online companies (by which I mean every company that does anything at all online, which is most of them nowadays) is probably to pretend that this law doesn’t exist, and assume that the first time the state tries to enforce it, it’ll be overturned again. But if that ever, even once, fails to happen, then the only sane response I can see for any such company is to cut off all business operations in Texas. Which would be so catastrophic to the state that even Trumpists would have to take notice.
It’s been said before and probably doesn’t need to be said again, but there needs to be a clear distinction between “Stupid Republican ideas” and the assumption that all Republicans are stupid. This is dangerous.
This is a fucking ridiculous ruling. Sites have Terms of Service for a reason. You can’t let everyone in Texas just do whatever the hell they want.
Like some kind of lawless frontier? A West that is Wild, one might say.
Exactly. The bolded word should be replaced with “evil.”
Disagree. Not replaced, amended to “stupid and/or evil.”
Being a Republican is not an inherent or immutable trait. Anyone still a Republican is either evil, wishing harm on their fellow citizens and humanity as a whole, or they are stupid and complicit to them. Or they are both.
Marge Greene says leftists are intentionally torching food processing plants because, reasons.
There’s a bill before the Missouri legislature making it illegal for pharmacists to question the effectiveness of ivermectin
I suppose the bill will have to wait in line behind the ones declaring Pi to be 3.14, and climate change to be unmentionable in Missouri schools…?
I assumed there’s some kind of multimillion dollar civil penalty. Or personal criminal liability for top executives. I wouldn’t have put either past Abbott.
Elise Stefanik is putting out a tweet condemning the shooting in Buffalo. Only weeks ago, she was pushing the racial replacement theory, the thing that the shooter was ranting about.