Really, AG Paxton? What a waste of Texas resources to go after Twitter over this issue

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Forth Worth Star-Telegram

Texas’ elected officials have an obligation to use their clout to help Texans. But sometimes, the state meddles or uses its power to grandstand and garner notoriety.

This is where we find ourselves again with Ken Paxton.

On Monday, the state attorney general announced his office was launching an investigation into Twitter for “potentially misleading Texans on the number of its ‘bot’ users.”

Paxton said: “I have a duty to protect Texans if Twitter is misrepresenting how many accounts are fake to drive up their revenue.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/really-ag-paxton-waste-state-195207464.html

[tanyev]

1. Huh. He felt no duty to protect the Texans to whom he misrepresented himself re: securities fraud.

Case background
In May 2015, Paxton admitted to failing to properly register with the Texas State Securities Board as an investment advisor while soliciting clients on behalf of a friend's investment firm prior to his election as Texas attorney general. The solicitations were made in 2004, 2005 and 2012 on behalf of Mowery Capital Management. In return for soliciting three clients, Paxton received a portion of the asset management fees; at the time when he made the solicitations, Paxton was a member of the Texas House of Representatives.[66] He was ultimately fined $1,000 by the Texas State Securities Board.[67]

Prosecutors in Collin County, Texas, said that the initial investigation into Paxton revealed a larger criminal matter that would need to be heard by a special grand jury.[67] On July 7, 2015, Special Prosecutor Kent Schaffer announced plans to seek a first-degree securities fraud indictment.[68] Schaffer declined to disclose the details of the case, although it was unrelated to Paxton's failure to register as an investment advisor. Details of the alleged securities fraud were uncovered during the original investigation, which stated that the fraud involved sums in excess of $100,000.[66][69] "The Rangers went out to investigate one thing, and they came back with information on something else," Schaffer told Dallas reporters. "It's turned into something different than when they started."[67]

https://ballotpedia.org/Securities_fraud_charges_against_Texas_Attorney_General_Ken_Paxton,_2015

[Pantagruel]

2. Another form of corporate welfare

Let Musk pay the lawyers pleading his interests.

[genxlib]

3. This certainly a misuse of public resources

But anything that undermines the authority of Twitter is a good thing.

We have to get to the point where the general public understands that likes and shares are a source of manipulation and not a source of truth

[PXR-5]

4. Protect Texans from Twitter Bots?

What?

Why just Twitter, are they going to look at all social media? Reddit is full of them also.

Oh wait a minute...

That Muskrat guy wants to buy it a cheaper price.

Since when do states look at internet bots lol, are bots illegal?

Can Texas control the number of SM bots around the globe, let alone over state lines?

What if the bots are pro-gun, then what happens?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Frasier Balzov]

5. More culture war crap.

Just like Brylcreem Kid in Florida.