The new bill comes after Andrew Bailey vowed to investigate companies pulling business from X, formerly Twitter over hate speech.
The new bill comes after Andrew Bailey vowed to investigate companies pulling business from X, formerly Twitter over hate speech.
That’s correct! The law is written to be non-commutative. That is it works one way, but the lack of indicating the other, implicitly indicates that it is not true. Here are the sections from the bill.
As you can see they are worded to have meaning in a single direction but aren’t reflexive in language. So this allows people to boycott the opposite of the above, but prohibits boycotting anything above.
It’s literally a law compelling conservative belief. And they know it’s not going to survive a legal challenge, but they also know they’ll get something like two or three decades out it before being completely overturned. It’s literally a legislative Hail, Mary.