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> Social networks also aren’t allowed to ban users based on their location in Texas, a provision clearly meant to stop sites from simply pulling out of the state — which might be the simplest solution for many of them.

How does this work? Is Texas in a position to say a company can't NOT do business in Texas? Which amounts to saying if it does business in other states then it must also serve Texas. Doesn't seem like it would hold up.



Agreed. I can't understand how that's supposed to work: Texas citizens sue Facebook for not operating in their state, under Texas state laws?

Surely state laws and thus lawsuits based on them can only be applied to entities operating within those states.

Right?




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