Texas governor signs bill prohibiting social media giants from blocking users based on viewpoint

No, you have it backwards. Can Starbucks be authoritarian? Obviously not, since they have no authority over anyone. It is voluntary to use services of private businesses, so they cannot be authoritarian. The government has authority over others, and when they pass laws like this one they exercise authoritarian rule. Your party is becoming very authoritarian / marxist and apparently you don't even see it. You support it.

 

We elect the folks that make the rues and even THEY overstep sometimes. No one ever elected a CEO but the elite.

 

So? That's the nature of capitalism.

Private businesses don't have authority over anyone. No one is forced to use their services or to have anything to do with them. Its voluntary, and in case of social media it doesn't even cost anything. These Republican whiners insist on using these free services and then they play the victim and cry about being treated unfairly, and beg for the government to come to their rescue, and Abbot used the authority of his government to do that just.

How anyone with even a hint of conservative thinking can support this is beyond me.

 

You're confusing an enacted law that can result in jail time with a company's policy that can only result in you losing your job with that specific company. Your employer has no authority to legally force you to take a vaccine. They have not robbed you of your choice, as the choice is still yours. They are just retaining the right to make their own choice about whether to continue employing you based on your unwillingness to meet their requirements.

Both entities in this equation have the right to make a choice.

Now I know how you feel about the vaccines, I've seen the rabid nonsense you're always posting. Don't bother responding with it because it's not relevant here. A company has the right to make safety choices and have safety requirements for the people it chooses to employ. Just like a manufacturing company could fire you for not wearing safety glasses while operating a machine, for drinking on the job, or for not wearing the appropriate protective equipment(even when it's uncomfortable), they can also choose to fire you or not hire you for not getting vaccinated as it presents not only a risk to others but also a risk that you will miss work on a much larger scale than someone who is vaccinated. Your kooky opinions on the vaccine don't matter. Even the opinion of a pro-vaccine person doesn't matter here. All that matters is that it is a reasonable request that an employ should be allowed to make.

 

If you know of any social media that we can use that isn't liberal and limits conservative thought... please let us know.

 

You can rationalize such coercion anyway you like to. That's your prerogative.

Considering the letter and spirit of the traditional US legal system, such coercion cannot be justified.

Considering the science (not pseudo science), do you mean to say that employers can demand a person not taking the flu shot can also be fired? Is this not medical tyranny and superstition?

How do US labor laws view this? Can a person with the improper Body Mass Index also be fired? Where does it end?

 

My Facebook page is as conservative as it gets since vast majority of my contacts are conservative and keep posting political nonsense. Its quite annoying actually. Its bursting with "conservative thought" and it is not limited. Contrary to what you think, Facebook does not provide content, the users do. Its funny how these conservative posters also cry and whine about social media and how unfair it is towards them, and they never stop to wonder why none of their political posts are never deleted, and why they are never banned for posting it. They say its unfair because they are told its unfair.

 

FACEBOOK is so tolerant... LOL... they banned Trump but allow the Taliban free access... LOL... yeah... unbiased and tolerant... LOLOLOL

 

Yes, he was banned for constant violations of the TOS. He is the king of whiners and he actually invented the "poor victimized republicans" idea, which other republicans now parrot, and why they see themselves as perpetual victims. Such victim mentality makes me ill. I do not vote Democrat, but I sure as hell won't vote for such whiners either.

Taliban? Taliban is not a user, there are tens of thousands of individuals, who can sign up and use Facebook. As soon as they post beheadings, rapes violence or other content which violates TOS, they are are banned too. This is why you don't see such things in Facebook. They also ban people for posting porn, profanity and abusive language.

 

Republicans are "victims"??? Really? Its Republicans that vote for welfare? Its Republicans that vote for free medical care? (I thought it was named after a Dem President named Obama...) Republicans want free education? (Sounds more like Bernie Sanders...) Its Republicans tat want to give $15,000 to every illegal immigrant? (Sounds more like the Dem Mayor of NYC)

 

be funny if social media just went dark in Texas

 

Yes, that is how they see themselves, and that is the very reason for Abbotts government action. They have a persecution complex, and they think everyone is out to get them.

 

I wouldn't notice, I don't use social media. I use shaking hands, talking face-to-face and live dialogue sitting with friends and acquaintances.

 

this is social media, this site

 

This will make a good test case for SCOTUS.

 

What did Abbott do that makes you think that? What did he do? As far as I can see, all he does is protect our borders, protect us from the silly COVID obedience mask and other requirements, and maintain the 2d amendment. The abortion thing is simply what Texans wanted... what they voted for. Its really of little consequence to me... but if that what the voters want... I'm all for it.

 

You would know much more about superstition than I would, it is part and parcel with your normal offering of nonsense and conspiracy theory.

But yes, my wife is a nurse and is required every year to get the flu shot.

Yes, a person whose body mass precludes them from meeting the requirements of the job can be fired. Another example would be a person, such as a delivery driver, unable to lift the normal weights a delivery driver could expect to encounter could be fired or not hired.

 

You are using it right now.

And even here there are rules, which can lead to a ban. Porn, profanities etc will do it, and if you are republican, you can later say you were banned for 'conservative thought'. See, its never about 'conservative thought', its always about violating the TOS. The 'conservatives thought' is just something they say to play the victim card.

 

Lets read the thead title together: "Texas governor signs bill prohibiting social media giants from blocking users based on viewpoint".

That's the topic we are discussing.

 

I guess you can v

That's why we have laws against monopolies.

 

Judging from all of the crying done by the RW, they at least think that they are victims.

 

If they can't comply with the rules of a privately owned platform, then they shouldn't be allowed on that private platform.

When did it become "conservative" to force a privately owned company to allow conspiracy theories to be spread on that privately owned platform?

 

These media platforms are violating monopoly laws. Just like a water company that stops providing water to someone because of their political views, Anti-monopoly laws protect us from such abuses. GO TEXAS!

 

Those "private" companies are monopolies and they work for Democrat party (essentially the government).
This law is just response to the war on people started by the leftists.

 

They are?

You'd have thought that the Trump Administration would've done something about that instead of weeping and sobbing about "unfair treatment".

Elaborate on this "monopoly" theory of yours.