{"id":292,"date":"2023-01-17T17:09:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T23:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/defendtexit.com\/texas-ag-ken-paxton-files-amicus-brief-on-tnm-v-facebook-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2023-01-17T17:09:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T23:09:27","slug":"texas-ag-ken-paxton-files-amicus-brief-on-tnm-v-facebook-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defendtexit.com\/texas-ag-ken-paxton-files-amicus-brief-on-tnm-v-facebook-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas AG Ken Paxton Files Amicus Brief On TNM v. Facebook Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed an amicus brief in the TNM vs. Meta <a href=\"https:\/\/tnm.me\/news\/tnm-news\/the-tnm-files-class-action-lawsuit-against-facebook-for-censorship\/\"><strong>lawsuit<\/strong><\/a> that has challenged Facebook\u2019s ability to censor Texans. The lawsuit has not only caused Meta to <a href=\"https:\/\/tnm.me\/news\/tnm-news\/facebook-reverses-link-ban-after-filing-of-texits-class-action-lawsuit\/\"><strong>stop censoring<\/strong><\/a> The Texas Nationalist Movement, but it has shaken big tech lawyers and will likely hold social media giants to Texas HB 20, which forbids social media giants from censoring Texans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Paxton\u2019s amicus brief was deeply critical of Meta\u2019s requests, is complimentary of TNM\u2019s lawsuit, and seeks to uphold Texas\u2019 H.B. 20:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Texas passed HB 20 after numerous examples came to light where Facebook and other large social media platforms were shown to discriminate against users based on their users\u2019 viewpoints. <\/em><strong><em>Texas determined that this behavior rose to the level that it implicated the State\u2019s \u201cfundamental interest in protecting the free exchange of ideas and information\u201d within its borders.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Facebook likely had no basis to remove this suit to federal court. There is definitively no federal question jurisdiction because Plaintiffs\u2019 suit arises under HB 20\u2014a state-law cause of action.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>California\u2014as expressed through multiple recent, high-profile enactments\u2014has propounded policy goals at loggerheads with HB 20. Among other things, California penalizes certain viewpoints that contradict state edicts. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In light of California public policy, there is a significant possibility that a California court applying California law would refuse or water-down HB 20\u2019s enforcement.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You may read the full amicus brief <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tnm.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/18-State-of-Texas-Amicus-Brief.pdf\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am grateful that Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed an amicus brief that brings to light many of the issues that the Texas Nationalist Movement has addressed in our lawsuit,\u201d said TNM President Daniel Miller. \u201cWe hope to have the support of the Attorney General\u2019s office as we work to ensure that Texas is free from censorship and that freedom of speech is abundant in our great state.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since filing the lawsuit, Meta has <a href=\"https:\/\/tnm.me\/news\/tnm-news\/facebook-wants-to-destroy-texit-not-just-censor-us\/\"><strong>requested to move<\/strong><\/a> the lawsuit to a federal court in California. TNM and the Texas Attorney General\u2019s Office agree that such a move would be against the interests of the state and the people of Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed an amicus brief in the TNM vs. Meta lawsuit that has challenged Facebook\u2019s ability to censor Texans. The lawsuit has not only caused Meta to stop censoring The Texas Nationalist Movement, but it has shaken big tech lawyers and will likely hold social media giants to Texas HB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defendtexit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defendtexit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defendtexit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defendtexit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defendtexit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defendtexit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defendtexit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defendtexit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defendtexit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}