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The new bill comes after Andrew Bailey vowed to investigate companies pulling business from X, formerly Twitter over hate speech.

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[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 11 points 11 months ago

Even if this somehow passed... from a business perspective: Pull out of Missouri and stop offering services to 6 million people, or tell tens or hundreds of millions of other people that you're supporting hate speech? Hmm..

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

They could always say that they don't see the business relationship being profitable and just shut up afterwards.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

The headline is very misleading. This law would just stop them from getting contracts from the state. They could still do business in the state.

The bill, Senate Bill 1061, would ban companies doing business with the state from engaging in “economic boycotts” over a large list of issues, including transgender care and abortion.

If you're not doing business with the state, it doesn't impact you at all.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 points 11 months ago

Ah! I misread that as 'doing business within the state', this is much less of an issue.

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but it could make companies pull out of the state, or to stop doing business with the state. Or they might shoot themselves in the foot by going after major service provider that isn't going to take kindly to this.

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