A Texas bill that threatened free speech has failed to move ahead in the state legislature.
The bill, HB 186, failed to pass just before the end of the Texas legislature’s session, AP reported Thursday, all but ending the push to ban social media accounts entirely for Texas children under 18 for now. Such a system would require age verification that threatens anonymous free speech. The bill also reportedlymade an exception for Google’s YouTube and communist Chinese government-tied TikTok, raising serious questions of bias.
Read the full blog on MRC Free Speech America’s site.
