Court lets Texas restrictions on internet moderation take effect

this going into effect, especially ruling web services are not websites, but sites that are governed by telephone carriers . . these carriers at least have the entire PUC public utility commissions of each state to sit down w/ each regulated telephone carriers and work out operations etc. Nothing about free speech or the telephone companies moderating speech on the phone network, no comparison.

They're part of some "interstate" thing. That's why Ted Cruz is always hauling them into the senate for hearings.

all the best, in successfully arguing the matter before the SC. Perhaps I misunderstood?

truth, that if you or anyone was going to argue the case in front of the SC (and its possible, there are a lot of different people w/ different occupations on DU, tons of them), I'd give them tons of encouragement. One thing about TX regulating content too on Internet Platforms (or whatever platform that crazy judge means, doesn't make sense at all, being that I'm an old telephone guy and worked w/ various public utility commissions in the past, including TX. These Internet Providers have always been unregulated entities, being that the age of Computers was upon us, and not regulating these Internet entities was to encourage their growth in a new media (the Internet).

Take care.

Apparently there is something about these platforms that I feel he does have a justification. I think they may get subsidies from the federal govt?? Anyway, he posts about this ad nauseum, (in 2020, he would post about it 10 times a day) so I couldn't help but notice it.

be under). One argument I made to the telephone company when I worked there (and my primary job was bringing in the Internet (vs. the overwhelming voice world of the Telephone Companies)) was that no one knows where the tail end of these Internet calls end up at. You could go through multiple data networks, multiple host(s), etc. which may reroute these calls to who knows where, and never even know truly where the data call terminates.

Phone companies use the terminating address to do a lot of things, such as determining taxation to apply on such calls, what jurisdiction to use in applying rating on such calls (if it applied), etc. The list is endless.

The voice world people were just flabbergasted to death that data calls were so unpredictable, so difficult to trace truly. This is why states should not be allowed to regulate the Internet and the associated data calls. How does the state know what rates to apply to such calls? Rating and / or taxing could be wrong or incorrect and then you would have a mess on your hands. Thus, they (regulators) tend to treat these calls kind of like Interstate calls, where the normal interstate taxing applies (and other taxes such as Excise taxes (which I don't think are still applicable but they may still be (excise taxes)).

These people like you say, Ted Cruz, don't know what he's talking about, w/ regards to these data applications such as Google, etc. It's funny that he picks on these larger Internet Service Providers, but what about the Mom and Pop Internet site down the street from you? They don't have the resources to develop additional apps if needed should state legislatures pass something that requires an additional level of knowledge by the app in order to fulfill state requirements.

I suspect that some apps will pull out, causing a reduction in the full suite of Internet apps / Service Providers available to customers (you and I) and thus, led to a reduction in job numbers (less app developers, etc. needed), and other nonsense items not currently needed. In short, a mess caused by stupid people in some states enacting poorly written bills attempting to regulate a thoroughly difficult product (the Internet).

They get banned for violations of the terms of service.

So good luck to anyone suing proving they were banned for their viewpoint.

Problem is MAGAts by the millions will use this to jam up social media with so many lawsuits they won’t be able to afford to fight them all.