While freethinkers are rightly worried that private online platforms such as Amazon, Twitter, and Facebook are increasingly-and often arbitrarily-cracking down on speech for political reasons, the much graver threat comes from governments at all levels seeking to ban or compel speech.
Such supposed censorship is "Going to be against the law in the state of Texas." That law.
Would create a "Digital communications commission" that would investigate platforms to make sure they don't allow "Hate speech," "Undermine election integrity," or "Disseminate intentional disinformation, conspiracy theories, or fake news"-all exceptionally vague terms that aren't even defined in the legislation.
The commission would have the ability to order changes in the way platforms operate.
The good news is that laws seeking to control individuals and platforms are blatantly unconstitutional.
We should loudly criticize platforms for kicking people off in arbitrary ways that diminish our ability to freely argue and disagree about politics and culture.
Far worse than such private cancel culture is when politicians tell us we don't have a right to insult cops, or when they're the ones setting the rules about what we must prohibit-or allow.
https://reason.com/2021/03/19/government-censorship-is-the-worst-cancel-culture-of-all/
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