{"id":977351,"date":"2021-03-05T07:04:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T13:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=977351"},"modified":"2021-03-05T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T18:00:01","slug":"abbott-hughes-to-promote-legislation-limiting-social-platforms-to-block-opinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=977351","title":{"rendered":"Tyler news conference: Abbott, Hughes to promote legislation limiting social media platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Gov. Greg Abbott will visit Tyler on Friday to draw attention to the ongoing efforts of Sen. Bryan Hughes to limit the power of social media platforms to block viewpoints they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t agree with. According to our news partner KETK, Hughes, R-Mineola, is the author Senate Bill 12 which would prohibit interactive platforms such as Facebook and Twitter from being able to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153censor a user, a user\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s expression, or a user\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ability to receive the expression of another person.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The bill would also allow Texans who felt they were censored to be able to take legal action. Abbott will join Hughes during a news conference set for noon Friday in the atrium of Plaza Tower, 110 N. College Ave.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Censorship is a real concern not just in Texas but across the country,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hughes said in a recent interview with Wes Rappaport of Nexstar Texas. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This has been a problem for a while. It seems to be becoming more acute. You know, social media, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the new town square, right? That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where folks go to share, ideas, to debate, to hash things out. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And unfortunately, we have a small group of people, really an elite \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and they want to be the gatekeepers for all of our free speech. And they are a common carrier. These social media companies are in the communications business, just like the telephone company or the cable company.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

In the previous Texas legislative session, Hughes filed a similar bill. He has said that too often social media platform operators are serving as censors of free speech.<\/p>\n

Hughes pointed out that social media platforms can remove content because they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like someone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s politics or religion and that federal law currently allows this to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Gov. Greg Abbott will visit Tyler on Friday to draw attention to the ongoing efforts of Sen. Bryan Hughes to limit the power of social media platforms to block viewpoints they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t agree with. According to our news partner KETK, Hughes, R-Mineola, is the author Senate Bill 12 which would prohibit interactive platforms … Continue reading Tyler news conference: Abbott, Hughes to promote legislation limiting social media platforms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":977365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/abbott-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Abbott, Hughes to promote legislation limiting social platforms to block opinions","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 10:15:41","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\/2021\/03\/abbott-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Abbott, Hughes to promote legislation limiting social platforms to block opinions","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977351","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=977351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977372,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977351\/revisions\/977372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/977365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=977351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=977351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=977351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}