As he concluded, “HB20 prohibits virtually all content moderation, the very tool that social medial platforms employ to make their platforms safe, useful, and enjoyable for users.” Pitman also explained, in detail, why allowing HB20 to go into effect would cause irreparable harm. In a 30-page opinion, Pitman held that social media platforms have a First Amendment right to moderate content disseminated on their platforms, and that HB20 was likely a violation of that right insofar as it could compel platforms to disseminate objectionable content. Just before HB20 was set to go into effect last December, Austin-based Judge Robert Pitman issued an injunction barring Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from enforcing it. Although the bill has an exception for content that directly incites criminal activity or includes specific threats of violence against individuals or groups based upon various characteristics, it has no exception for content concerning crimes already committed, such as the Buffalo shooter’s livestream. To that end, the bill makes it unlawful for companies to “censor” a user based upon the specific content of their posts, even if that content is clearly objectionable. One high-profile example cited by supporters of the law was when former President Donald Trump was permanently banned from Twitter and suspended from Facebook for his comments during and after the Jan.
Greg Abbott last September in response to (debatable) claims that large social media platforms were routinely discriminating against - and “censoring” - conservative political viewpoints. Using these pickup lines on an actual human in an online setting may result in a swift block - a digital severance of communication from the person you’re talking to - because your pickup line was just so damn cringe-y your intended couldn’t bear to talk to you anymore.HB20 was enacted by the Texas Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Some of these zingers weren’t necessarily used on Tinder originally, but if we could imagine them feasibly being used in an online setting, they made the cut.Ĭringe warning: Viewing these Tinder pickup lines may cause you to recoil away from the screen in secondhand embarrassment. To determine the honor of which lines appear on our list below, we looked to Reddit’s point system, which allows users to upvote posts and responses, signifying popularity, which is how we selected our top 20.
But as far as we can tell, pickup lines, like cockroaches after an apocalyptic event, have survived the shift to online dating and are doing just fine.įrom the looks of r/pickuplines and other threads we dug into, they continue to be as prevalent - and face-palm inducing - as ever. And the results are, well … the results kinda speak for themselves. To get to the bottom of it, we ventured over to Reddit to check out the general state of cheesy one-liners to be deployed in an online dating setting. It’s difficult to say whether e-dating has weakened or boosted the pickup line game.
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