{"id":33566,"date":"2021-04-01T18:49:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T01:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33566"},"modified":"2021-04-01T18:49:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T01:49:43","slug":"texas-senate-blocks-social-media-platforms-from-banning-users-based-on-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33566","title":{"rendered":"Texas Senate blocks social media platforms from banning users based on politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Senate on Thursday passed a bill blocking social media platforms from banning residents based on their political views.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ctpqvkhrmttfskstfgcmmfqqmhfzthtnnlmrkjzttgggmj_wsfdggvlvbdsdnvdggnz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ctpqvkhrmttfskstfgcmmfqqmhfzthtnnlmrkjzttgggmj_wsfdggvlvbdsdnvdggnz.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1617402791149000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHK5qyco5HEiT3oJHhVHnR4njgfZw\">Texas Tribune reported<\/a>\u00a0that Senate Bill 12 passed shortly after 2 a.m. on Thursday. The measure now heads to the state House, where there are two identical bills that have not moved out of their committee, according to the Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>The bill bans platforms from censoring a \u201cuser, a user\u2019s expression, or a user\u2019s ability to receive the expression of another person\u201d based on their viewpoints or geographical location,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bplbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmppjjjzb_wsfdggvlvbdsdnvdggnz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bplbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmppjjjzb_wsfdggvlvbdsdnvdggnz.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1617402791149000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFD6p7aNo4n5tOI5XbvC4ljRZlFsA\">according to its text.<\/a>\u00a0The measure also requires social media companies to publicly disclose information regarding their practices around how they target content for users, promote content and services and moderate content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Senate on Thursday passed&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33567,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33566\/revisions\/33567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}