AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A push in Texas to ban children under 18 years old from social media platforms has failed at the state Capitol. Lawmakers on Wednesday night did not take a key vote on creating one of the nation’s toughest restrictions aimed at keeping minors off the platforms. The bill aimed to go further than Florida’s ban on social media for minors under 14. The bill was opposed by tech trade groups and critics who called it it an unconstitutional limit on free speech. The sponsor of the measure blamed pushback from unnamed “billionaires” as a key reason for its failure.
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