Suppose, for example, that someone, angry that a woman he met online refused his advances, decides to bombard that woman with harassment, much of it calling her "ugly." If Twitter bans this user for calling the woman "ugly," Texas's law most likely would also require Twitter to ban anyone who calls the woman "beautiful" — because the law prohibits discrimination on the basis of viewpoint.
Similarly, if a literal Nazi launched a YouTube account that posts videos calling for the systematic extermination of all Jews, Texas's law would prevent YouTube from banning this user or removing the Nazi videos, unless it also took the same action against users who express the opposite viewpoint — that is, the view that Jewish people should not be exterminated...
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