[HN Gopher] "Radical" ruling lets Texas ban social media moderat...
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       "Radical" ruling lets Texas ban social media moderation based on
       "viewpoint"
        
       Author : AdmiralAsshat
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2022-05-12 20:49 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | pessimizer wrote:
       | This was an inevitability of the right-wing "cancel culture"
       | narrative. If you want to keep people from being fired for being
       | bigots, but you want to protect the right to fire people for any
       | reason at any time, there's nothing you can do other than to make
       | "bigot" a protected class.
       | 
       | I'm waiting for people to self-identify as bigots, or for it to
       | be a choice on the census under race or religion.
        
         | quantified wrote:
         | You need to be able to teach the other side of the Holocaust
         | somewhere in a free country, right?
        
           | williamtwild wrote:
           | are you being serious?
        
       | commandlinefan wrote:
       | Social media moderators really brought this on themselves.
        
         | suture wrote:
         | It seems to me to be a strange stance by conservatives. On the
         | one hand they think a business ought to be able to not serve
         | certain protected classes and on the other hand want to be
         | treated like a protected class.
        
           | jqpabc123 wrote:
           | Seems totally illogical doesn't it? Which explains why it
           | makes perfect sense to conservatives.
        
       | qgin wrote:
       | Social media companies can declare themselves "religious
       | businesses" and bypass this:
       | 
       | > Federal judge in Texas rules in favor of religious businesses
       | over LGBTQ discrimination claims
       | 
       | > A federal judge ruled Sunday that for-profit businesses that
       | have sincerely held religious beliefs do not have to abide by
       | LGBTQ discrimination claims, a blow to the previous ruling in the
       | Supreme Court that protected sexual orientation and gender
       | identity from discrimination, according to The Dallas Morning
       | News.
       | 
       | https://thehill.com/legal/579816-federal-judge-in-texas-rule...
        
       | jqpabc123 wrote:
       | Can't wait to see how this is applied on "Truth Social".
        
       | [deleted]
        
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