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\"\"NEW ORLEANS — Texans now have a way of getting back on social media giants, like Facebook and Twitter, after being banned for voicing unpopular viewpoints. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has re-instated the new law, that was blocked by a lower court back in December. State Senator Bryan Hughes of Mineola sponsored the new social media law. He says, “If a site does block or restrict a user based on viewpoint, the user can file suit against the site to get back online — and the site has to pay the user’s attorney’s fees.” Industry trade groups call the law an assault on the first amendment, and constitutionally rotten from top to bottom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW ORLEANS — Texans now have a way of getting back on social media giants, like Facebook and Twitter, after being banned for voicing unpopular viewpoints. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has re-instated the new law, that was blocked by a lower court back in December. State Senator Bryan Hughes of … Continue reading Hughes comments on ruling in social media case<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1125671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/03\/BryanHughes1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Hughes comments on ruling in social media case","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 21:26:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/03\/BryanHughes1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Hughes comments on ruling in social media case","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125669,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125667\/revisions\/1125669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1125671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}