Florida Bill Would Stop Social Media Companies From Permanently Deplatforming Political Candidates

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a bill ready for signature that would stop social media companies from permanently kicking people off their platforms in the state. The bill was passed Thursday by the…

The bill was passed Thursday by the Florida House 77-38 in favor of the bill, the Senate, 23-17. It makes it a crime to remove state political candidates from social media sites like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

The Florida bill may serve as a prototype for other states that will force the courts into a new evaluation of free speech on social media. “What this bill is about is sending a loud message to Silicon Valley that they are not the absolute arbiters of truth,” GOP state Rep. John Snyder said Wednesday, . “What this bill does is send a loud message that the Constitution does not have an asterisk that says only certain speech is free and protected.”

 

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No court of law will uphold this. Every social media platform has a terms of service that you have to agree to to use. If you break it, company is well within its rights to ban you. This is just conservatives making up something to be mad about and “legislate”

Good luck enforcing this in a court of law, though I would wager the cynics who passed this don't give a shit.

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