Many People Are Saying (10/4/24)
Weekly Texas rumors, gossip, and other things we're hearing.
Welcome to “Many People Are Saying,” our once a week paid-subscriber article where we feature rumors we’re hearing, inside gossip in the political world, and other interesting things going on in our great state of Texas.
This week:
Lara Logan Falsely Claims Election Issues in Tarrant County!
Gay Judge Blocks Part of Texas Law Protecting Kids from Porn
Former Rep. Advocates for Convicted Murderer
Lara Logan Falsely Claims Election Problems in Tarrant County
On Wednesday, investigative journalist and famous political figure, Lara Logan claimed that that was “real danger” of election fraud because Tarrant County was attempting to send out 7 million mail-in ballots.
This is of course an absurd claim because the total population of Tarrant County is only 2.1 million.
Multiple Tarrant County leaders addressed Logan’s claims.
Logan would later double down yesterday saying she was mistaken and that she actually meant Harris County.
Harris County also wouldn’t fit her story as it only has a total population of 5 million people.
Gay Judge Blocks Part of Texas Law Protecting Kids from Porn
Ken Paxton is pushing ahead with a lawsuit against TikTok related to some weird technicality tied to marketing and age verification.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued TikTok on Thursday for sharing and selling minors’ personal information, violating a new state law that seeks to protect children who are active on social media, accusations that the company denied hours later.
The Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act prohibits social media companies from sharing or selling a minor’s personal information unless a parent or guardian approves. The law, which was passed by the Legislature last year and partially went into effect Sept. 1, also requires companies to create tools that let verified parents supervise their minor child’s account.
This is very goofy sort of “gotcha” part of this law. Even the DOJ is getting in on this “protect the children” against TikTok nonsense.
Did you notice the law only “partially” went into effect?
The SCOPE law’s regulations about algorithms, software features, and other incomprehensible gibberish was allowed to go into effect.
You know which part of the law a certain federal Judge blocked?