Federal judge says Twitter is not a website during Texas tech law appeal
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`Your clients are internet providers,` Judge Edith Jones told the lawyer for the plaintiffs, NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association. `They are not websites.` What you need to know A Texas tech law is currently going through an appeal court in the U.S. A judge presiding over the case seems convinced that Twitter is not a website, but rather an `internet provider.` Another judge expressed that without the law, phone carriers could terminate phone calls that contain speech they don`t like. A federal judge presiding over an appeal regarding a new Texas tech law appears convinced that Twitter is now in fact a website, but an internet provider. Protocol reports proceedings pertaining to a new Texas tech law that was appealed by Big Tech trade groups and successfully paused, from Tuesday: The judges presiding over the hearing in a New Orleans courtroom were weighing whether to clear the way for a Texas law that was designed to punish social media servi...