DeSantis proposes daily fines for Big Tech that deplatform political candidates

anatta said:
Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday took aim at the country’s largest technology companies, which he characterized as a group of "monopoly communications platforms" based on the way they have grown to regulate public discourse.

"These platforms have changed from neutral platforms that provided Americans with the freedom to speak, to enforcers of preferred narratives," DeSantis said during a press conference. "Consequently, these platforms have played an increasingly decisive role in elections and have negatively impacted Americans who dissent from orthodoxies favored by the big tech cartel."

DeSantis targeted tech companies over content moderation, which he equated to political manipulation, as he reiterated a belief held by many conservatives that Silicon Valley is biased against viewpoints emanating from the right.

In an effort to keep Big Tech out of Florida’s political sphere, DeSantis proposed a number of measures including a $100,000 daily fine for companies that deplatform political candidates. Additionally, actions taken by companies to effectively promote a candidate will be considered campaign contributions.

DeSantis proposed measures to enhance user rights as well, including allowing individuals and the Florida attorney general to sue companies over violations of individual protections, as well as requiring companies to provide full disclosures of actions taken against individuals for violating policies.

The Florida governor took issue with several recent – and controversial – content moderation policies that have been taken up by the largest social media players. For example, he said social media users who chose to follow President Donald Trump were unable to do so after his accounts were locked on Facebook and Twitter following the role his inflammatory rhetoric allegedly played in inciting the deadly riots on Capitol Hill earlier this month.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-fines-big-tech-political-candidates


DeSantis also went after Amazon for effectively forcing free speech app Parler – favored by conservatives and Trump supporters, as well as some right-wing extremists – offline over its decision not to moderate content related to the Jan. 6 siege in the same manner as Facebook and Twitter.
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I suspect that DeSantis plans on using these fines to intimidate his political opponents, which is the Trumpian way.
 
Concart said:
Wow, the Florida Governor must have gotten some new powers.

LOL at you, comrade.
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I find it odd that the same governor who jailed a fired employee who refused to cite false Covid numbers, is now calling for freedom of any type of speech.
 
Althea said:
I find it odd that the same governor who jailed a fired employee who refused to cite false Covid numbers, is now calling for freedom of any type of speech.
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Falsifying State records is a criminal offense. It is a felony. They deserved jail time.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Fascinating. Suddenly Reichwingers are in favor of government interference with private business. What was that called again? Starts with the letter F? Oh that's right! Fascism for the win!
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Common carrier laws are not fascism. It is not interfering with markets, which is fascism.
 
Trumpet said:
I suspect that DeSantis plans on using these fines to intimidate his political opponents, which is the Trumpian way.
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True. trump knows that as long as he's sitting on boxes of money, he has control over the Republican primaries.

However dangerous, this is fun to watch.
 
Hoosier Daddy said:
nazis, you dumbass pig, would be the ones favoring the government to force private businesses to post offensive shit whether they like it or not, as long as it what that government likes. get it, stupid bitch? fuck desantis. fuck trump. fuck you. start your own goddamn lying ass nutbar platform.
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Posting offensive shit isn't against the law, fortunately for you.
 
anatta said:
finally! someone standing up to Big Tech's capricious bannings, without disclosing their process

I love this guy -but then I love anyone standing up for freedom to express political speech
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Do you consider JPP with its TOS to capriciously ban people? Follow the rules.
 
Althea said:
I find it odd that the same governor who jailed a fired employee who refused to cite false Covid numbers, is now calling for freedom of any type of speech.
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I forgot all about that. You're right, he did, didn't he? Then he had the police storm her house and seize her laptop.

But there's no fascism to see here, folks.
 
Into the Night said:
Posting offensive shit isn't against the law, fortunately for you.
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Correct but if you say offensive or, as in your case, delusional psychotic bullshit, I have a right to throw you out of my house and off my property. If you refuse to leave, I'll call the police. If you get violent, I will defend myself with deadly force since paranoid schizophrenics are well recognized to be a danger to others and themselves if they are violent.

You don't have a right to spout lies on private property without permission.
 
DeSantis simply wants to spew confusion, for in confusion truth becomes whatever the loudest voice broadcast. Lies become truth or truth becomes confused and then the snake oil sells well. I was amazed that Newsmax - a biased right wing news source - actually has come around to acknowledging Biden's win. That crazy pillow guy was told to shut up. And I wonder what Qanon is up to as their election predictions crashed. See link at bottom.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/...ke-lindell-interview-after-he-wont-drop-fraud


'Fact check: Meme of 9 questions makes false inauguration claims'

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...s-false-biden-inauguration-claims/4333267001/


"I want to argue for something which is controversial, although I believe that it is also intuitive and commonsensical. My claim is this: Oliver believes what he does because that is the kind of thinker he is or, to put it more bluntly, because there is something wrong with how he thinks. The problem with conspiracy theorists is not, as the US legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues, that they have little relevant information. The key to what they end up believing is how they interpret and respond to the vast quantities of relevant information at their disposal. I want to suggest that this is fundamentally a question of the way they are. Oliver isn’t mad (or at least, he needn’t be). Nevertheless, his beliefs about 9/11 are the result of the peculiarities of his intellectual constitution – in a word, of his intellectual character."

The intellectual character of conspiracy theorists | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/the-intellectual-character-of-conspiracy-theorists
 
anatta said:
what powers is he exceeding? these are proposals
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I didn't say he exceeded any powers. He doesn't have any power to exceed. He is completely feckless, he's putting on a show for his Dear Leader. Just another good reason that DeSantis never holds another public office again ever.
 
Phantasmal said:
Darth Omar said:
Yup, the states might have the answer for this. Didn’t the TX AG start it?
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He’s another dummy, that may be going to jail.
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Ken Paxton is a crook and I hope he goes to prison to serve the maximum penalty.

That said, he was a crook working with other crooks. Maybe he'll serve time for conspiring to overthrow the US too. BTW, Paxton wasn't Trump's first choice but because Paxton was a crook, he was the only AG to accept.

https://www.statesman.com/story/new...-texas-attorney-general-complaint/4341691001/
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's complaint to the U.S. Supreme Court, filed in December in an attempt to nullify election results in four states won by Democrat Joe Biden, was drafted by lawyers close to the Trump campaign and shopped to Republican leaders around the country, according to a New York Times report.

One of the lawyers who wrote the draft, Lawrence Joseph, was hired by Paxton to serve as a "special outside counsel" — at no cost to Texas — to help on the Supreme Court complaint, which was filed Dec. 7, the same day Paxton retained Joseph, the Times reported.

"This appointment is for the limited purpose of assisting the OAG in representing the State of Texas before the United States Supreme Court," according to a letter Paxton sent to Joseph laying out the terms of employment.

Joseph's name appeared on the Texas complaint, as did Paxton's.

Noticeably missing was Kyle Hawkins, Paxton's solicitor general, who has argued before the Supreme Court and who was in charge of appellate court proceedings at the state agency. Hawkins argued against filing the complaint and refused to sign the document, the Times reported.

Five weeks later, on Jan. 13, Paxton announced that Hawkins had stepped down as solicitor general, though no reason for his departure was given.

When the lawyers allied with President Donald Trump approached Paxton, they were working on a tight deadline.

Members of the Electoral College were due to vote Dec. 14 to formally determine who won the November presidential election, and Trump and his supporters were working feverishly to deny Biden the 306-232 margin of victory in electoral votes.

With no time for the usual path to the Supreme Court through the legal system, the Trump-tied lawyers turned to state attorneys general, who could go directly to the high court by suing another state.

Paxton not a first choice
But Paxton, the Times reported, wasn't their first choice because he was under FBI investigation over allegations, lodged in September and October by several top aides, that he was misusing the powers of his state office to help a friend and campaign donor.

The Trump insiders — including Kris Kobach, a former Kansas secretary of state who led Trump's short-lived election integrity commission after the 2016 election, and Mark Martin, a former North Carolina chief justice and an informal Trump legal adviser — made a particularly strong push to engage Louisiana's attorney general but were rebuffed, the Times said.

 
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