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View submission: Defending the open Internet (again): Our latest brief to the Supreme Court
Well, it's *Texas* house bill 20, right? I just think reddit would pull out of the state, their whole model is predicated on community moderation.
Call me old fashioned, but I believe in the existence of objective reality. There are such things as facts. The issue with these laws are that they will take things like climate change - which is based on rigorous science - and say "that is a viewpoint" when it isn't. The real threat is by not allowing any moderation at all, that websites will be overrun by bots and the narrative will be controlled not by the site - who can be held publicly accountable for their actions - but by whoever owns the bot servers: Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Romania, Bangladesh, etc. I think the quality of information available on the internet will suffer when anybody can say anything and there's nothing that can be done about it. There's no need for *everything* to be politically weaponized, which it will be if these laws pass.
There's nothing here!