TX Gov Backs Bill To Outlaw Bannings By Social Media

Dallas’s NBC News affiliate reports:

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and State Sen. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) are set to discuss a bill that aims to “help prohibit social media companies from censoring Texans based on the viewpoints they express,” the governor’s office says. According to the Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 12 would give Texans a way to get back online if a social media company bans or blocks their account based on their political or religious views.

Read the bill here. It stipulates that the law would only apply to platforms with 100 million or more users.

From its summary:

If any provision of this Act is found by any court to be unconstitutionally vague, the applications of that provision that do not present constitutional vagueness problems shall be severed and remain in force.

I am joining @SenBryanHughes to announce a bill prohibiting social media companies from censoring viewpoints.

Too many social media sites silence conservative speech and ideas and trample free speech.

It’s un-American, Un-Texan, & soon to be illegal.https://t.co/zSdirRa1pj

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) March 5, 2021