Twitter, ever the hypocritical platform, appears to have taken on the facade that it cares about free speech in a lawsuit against Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton.
Twitter has filed a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Paxton for allegedly violating the platform’s “First Amendment rights.”
Paxton issued civil investigative demands (CIDs) to Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon Web Services and Apple. The CIDs followed the suspension of former President Donald Trump from multiple social media platforms and the purge of Parler from Amazon Web Services and Apple and Google’s app stores.
In the IDs, Paxton “[asked] the companies for their policies and practices regarding content moderation and, more specifically, for information related to Parler, a social media application recently terminated or blocked by Google, Amazon, and Apple,” according to a Jan. 13 press release.
Twitter claimed in the lawsuit that it “cannot practically make every aspect of its content moderation practices public because some confidentiality is vital to the effective functioning of its platform.”
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