[armchairhacker]

Like how these sites have blocklists in China/Russia/other countries, what if they provide an "allow-list" for content in Texas? So stuff gets flagged / banned as usual, except in Texas the bans don't apply.

If they really want to they could require users go through many hoops to prove they're in Texas, and then add things like latency issues, so that they "technically" comply with the ruling but not really. Kind of like what Apple does with their App Store (not latency but other stuff, like allowing dating apps in Sweden to use custom payment, making custom payment have all these requirements, etc.)

Bonus points for ensuring that the front page gets filled with spam, because that's what you get with "zero censorship". Even though artificially down-weighing content isn't the same as censoring it. Oh, and they also secretly unlist the conservative content the bill actually aims to protect anyways.

[dane-pgp]

> the front page gets filled with spam, because that's what you get with "zero censorship".

Commercial messages are not entitled to the same protections as political opinions, so no one is asking for "zero censorship".

I suppose a law can't force social media companies to filter spam and make their front pages bearable to read, but if your suggestion is that they should maliciously comply by unnecessarily and deliberately ruining their own services for people in Texas, then they could just as well not offer the services to people in Texas at all, which would achieve the same result and be cheaper.