Background: Conservatives have been convinced that they are a persecuted class whose viewpoints are being shut down by Big Tech. In fact, the opposite is true: when rigorous studies of the largest platforms like Facebook and Twitter were made, they found conservative content actually gets a boost.
The dumbass legislators in the great state of Texas recently passed a law purporting to crack down on this illusory problem by imposing daily fines on social media companies who censor content or users based upon their “viewpoint.”
What is “viewpoint”? Good question! The law, of course, doesn’t define it at all.
Well? Hitler had a viewpoint. He had a viewpoint that Germany should expand into its East, purge the Jews, homosexuals, other undesirables, and all other people found there, and allow the master race of Aryans to assume its rightful mastery over the world.
Despite Hitler’s miserable failure, and the unfathomable and undeniable human devastation left in his wake — which should have put an end to Nazism in any sane universe —there are still a disturbing number of useful idiots today who adhere to this lunacy.
The Texas “free speech” law, if upheld, would permit anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers, Neo-Nazis, and every other kind of terrorist to run wild on mainstream social media, exposing everyone and their grandma to this crap, rather than being forced to huddle with each other in the cold dark depths of the Dark Web where these basement-dwelling edgelords belong.
It won’t do to simply say Hitler and his acolytes “aren’t political.” They quite obviously are. Anti-Semitic propaganda stating that Jews secretly run the world and that “Aryans” should rule the world instead are indeed political statements, no matter how half-baked and counter-factual.
The Texas law would entitle such vile beliefs to equal protection as factual mainstream Republican or Democratic opinions about current events and topics.
And it would totally wreck the moderation systems of platforms like Imgflip, to the point they’d have to decide to either allow themselves to be hijacked by anti-Semites, or else shut down entirely and allow no one to speak.
