Texas
Ron Paul sounds alarm on “unique patient identifier” that would undermine right to privacy
There are at least two bills that want to implement UPIs.
History professor fired from Collin College for social media posts about Mike Pence and coronavirus sues
Burnett believes her First Amendment rights were violated.
Hospitals struggle with staff shortages after vaccine passport mandates
Forcing staff to show vaccine passports has reduced the number of staff by up to 20% in some US hospitals.
Big Tech pushes back on Texas’ social media free speech law
Social media platforms want to moderate as they see fit.
Biden announces over 100 million Americans will need a vaccine passport to go to work
The legality of the order is already being questioned.
Texas House passes social media free speech bill
Next it will head to the senate.
Students are facing facial recognition watchlists in Texas schools
Students’ movements and actions are recorded.
WATCH how CNN pressures Lyft CEO into taking a political stance on Georgia voting laws
Journalists have become full-blown activists.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott seeks tax subsidies for Facebook to build new data center in the state
Some are seeing a conflict with Abbott’s public suggestion he wants to rein in Big Tech.
Twitter says it was a “mistake” to censor Project Veritas border crisis photos
The images were placed behind a “sensitive” content warning but has since been reversed.
Texas Governor Abbott criticized for trying to paint free speech social platform Gab as “anti-Semitic”
The Governor’s comments came out of left-field.