he did that and it was in his hands." But for now, that's where we are. We have to wait and watch. Watch to see what else Baldwin says in this interview. Does he say anything that gives more insight. Does he say anything that maybe contradicts what we understand about the situation. As far as wait, I mean, obviously we have to wait for the investigation. What will that reveal? Then, we should definitely talk about how a federal judge in Texas has now blocked the State from enacting a law that would have prevented social media platforms from banning users based on their, quote, viewpoint. And so, how we got to this point, you have Governor Greg Abbott signing this law back in September for platforms with at least NUMBER_TOKEN million active monthly users, and had it not been blocked, it would've gone into effect today. On notably we've talked about these types of laws a few times on the show. Largely the Republican led reactions to the social media bans that we saw against then President Donald Trump following the January NUMBER_TOKENth insurrection. With that many Republicans have continually claimed that social media platforms have an anti-conservative bias, despite having almost complete control of the monthly engagement list on sites like Facebook. Many also taking it a step further and saying that they're stifling free speech. However, in his decision yesterday, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ruled that the First Amendment gives platforms a right to moderate on their sites. Saying, "This court is convinced that social media platforms, or at least those covered by House Bill NUMBER_TOKEN curate both users and content to convey a message about the type of community the platform seeks to foster and as such exercise editorial discretion over their platform's content." And on top of that, again, they found some of the aspects of the Texas law prohibitively vague. He also noted that the law itself, not the social media platforms violated the First Amendment. Explaining, "The platforms have policies against content that express a viewpoint and disallowing them from applying their policies requires platforms do alter the expressive content of their message." Now, understand with all of that said, this law is not fully scrapped. Instead, it's just a preliminary injunction, meaning, that at the very least, it's just on hold until the case against it is over. But also, if you remember, this is very similar to a story that we talked about back in June, where a federal judge in Florida blocked another social media viewpoint law, just like this. This is not a completely unique situation. It's gonna be interesting to see what happens from here. But from that, I wanna take a second to thank today's sponsor, KiwiCo. KiwiCo makes really awesome hands-on projects and activities aimed at inspiring young innovators, as well as defining the future of play and making it engaging and fun. Each crate is designed to expose kids to a wide range of concepts in steam, science, technology, engineering, art, math, and overall they're a fantastic resource for learning at home. These crates are designed by experts, tested by kids and teach a new theme through hands-on learning and fun. Basically KiwiCo wants kids to be fearless innovators by designing projects to help develop those skills. KiwiCo includes everything that you'll need. So you don't have to worry about running out for extra supplies. And honestly,
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