That Texas Law Banning Censorship on Social Netwrorks

 “The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked Texas from immediately enforcing a new state law that aims to prohibit large social-media platforms from suppressing users’ posts based on the content of their speech.” — The Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2022.

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