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Can Wikipedia no longer be edited in Texas?

29 pointsby HotGarbageover 2 years ago

4 comments

advisedwangover 2 years ago
The bill only allows enforcement by the Texas Attorney General, who can decide who to go after. Creating an over-broad law and then giving someone the power to selectively apply it is putting a huge amount of power in their hands.<p>Do you think the AG is going to go after companies censoring their political enemies? Of course not - this is about ensuring their allies are protected only. Moreover because the law is so nuts, companies can&#x27;t &quot;just&quot; comply with the law, they actively need to court the state AG&#x27;s favour so they don&#x27;t get sued.<p>This is&#x27;t about making Wikipedia illegal - it&#x27;s about making everything online illegal so they can control internet discourse.
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PopAlongKidover 2 years ago
&gt; it has more than 97 million monthly active users on the site.<p>&gt; And the interactive nature of the site is not incidental to the service. It’s the whole point.<p>I don&#x27;t understand this part. I consult Wikipedia many times per week, but I am not an &quot;active user&quot;, I don&#x27;t have an account, and I don&#x27;t use it &quot;interactively&quot; at all -- just read-only.
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ilakshover 2 years ago
Hopefully this is not a controversial statement. But I think it&#x27;s interesting how this law and it&#x27;s existence is being contextualized in wildly different ways depending on political leanings.
arsover 2 years ago
Wikipedia isn&#x27;t censoring anything at all. The users are, but this law doesn&#x27;t prevent them.<p>I&#x27;m flagging this because this article is pure stupidity. Which ironically is a claim the author of this piece is leveling at others, not realizing it applies to him more than anyone else.
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