Posted on 05/24/2021 10:00:17 AM PDT by Enlightened1
JUST IN - Florida Gov. DeSantis has just signed a bill into law that would allow everyday Floridians to sue Big Tech Platforms for monetary damages.
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https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1396861517065330689
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Let the lawsuits fly!
You know other States will follow when see the money flowing. Haha!
What a great governor. We could use one in Michigan.
The GOP-e could have made this a campaign rallying point if they weren’t so busy attacking Trump.
The main thing this states is that sites are:
“prohibited from de-platforming Floridian political candidates. The Florida Election Commission will impose fines of $250,000 per day on any social media company that de-platforms any candidate for statewide office, and $25,000 per day for de-platforming candidates for non-statewide offices.”
Does that mean if someone running for dog catcher in Florida gets Zotted on FR, Jim will need to pay them $250K?
There are a lot of ANGRY neo-Marxists living in Florida.
Love this guy. The Dems are keeping 230 to protect Big Tech from being sued in Federal courts provided they censor their platforms. Translation provided they suppress conservative comment and any news injurious to the Dem agenda. So, DeSantis says, screw them, we will allow our residents to sue them in our state courts. Now and the Texas and the red states follow his lead.
Fla lawyers rejoice!
ML/NJ
“I hope he gave Free Republic an exemption!’
The only exemption seems to be this:
“The term does not include any information service, system, Internet search engine, or access software provider operated by a company that owns and operates a theme park.”
It seems like Disney has better lobbyists than FR.
Can we expect Facebook and Twitter to compete to buy the Santa’s Village outside of Tallahassee?
.... Well it looks like “The Globalists” have a Federal Northern Florida District Judge warming up in the bullpen who is known for particularly wicked declaratory judgments, along with a D.C. Appeals Court Judge stretching just in case ..
Now Trump can file lawsuits against Fartbook and go after Suckerburg’s Hawaii estate.
Good, class actions should begin.
GTFO. Favoring politicians above all else. This is $hit. .Gov shouldn't be telling FR what to do.
This is a State Law... and so generally Fed courts do not get involved.
Donald J. Trump vs. Facebook
Donald J. Trump vs. Twitter.
This is going to get really interesting.
I am pretty sure the Governor is not thinking about Free Republic.
Moreover, I believe the bill only applies to web sites that have over 1 million members. So Free Republic is safe.
Doesn’t matter. It’s $hit. .Gov shouldn’t be in the part of anticensoring. This is some goofy fairness doctrine. There is no place for this.
I will guess that 100% of the legislators from Orlando insisted on that tortured sentence.
I thought absurd language like that only appeared in federal legislation.
I doubt that JimRob would be liable under this bill; FR is specifically billed as a conservative site.
Facebooger, Twit-Er, and other giants are not.
First the Social Media companies are breaking their own agreement to not censor people. They want the protections of a public platform, but then they want to behave like an Editor. An Editor can censor, but then they have liability.
So a cartel of social media giants, that receives U.S. Tax payer money, are getting together and censoring tax payer Americans? When they are breaking their own legal agreement. Which makes them liable.
Social media is the new modern day telephone. It’s how people communicate. Imagine if your phone company canceled your phone because they did not like what you said? Furthermore, you could not even get a phone with another phone company? How would you like that?
The reason this happened is because congress is looking the other way.
Sorry I 1000% disagree with your asinine statement. I know you think tax payer monopolies are good, but that is not free market.
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