A Florida internet law is on hold while a lawsuit contesting it continues. Judge Robert Hinkle has issued a preliminary injunction blocking nearly all of SB 7072, a controversial and sweeping regulation of social media platforms. “The legislation now at issue was an effort to rein in social-media providers deemed too large and too liberal. Balancing the exchange of ideas among private speakers is not a legitimate governmental interest,” Hinkle wrote his order. Moreover, the law “discriminates on its face among otherwise identical speakers,” partly thanks to an eyebrow-raising exemption for companies that operate a theme park. That raises the bar for evaluating whether the law violates the First Amendment — and in Hinkle’s estimation, it probably does. https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/30/...theme-park-law-preliminary-injunction-lawsuit ________________________________ DeSantis will definitely bite the dust on this one. As if he could force a social network, a private company, to accept a member. Conservatives still insist to pass law who violate the Constitution while claiming to be its strongest defenders....
We absolutely need laws governing social media. They routinely institutionalize harassment and censorship of persons that don't fall in line with big tech's far-left ideological viewpoints, and aside from that they're just too massive to remain unregulated. Seriously its just ridiculous they've operated for this long and grown to the scale which they have without incurring regulation specific to their sector. But the DeathSantis law was just poorly written. He needs to get with other Governors and then together they can take a better swing at this. And don't just stop at social media. Do what the left does when they use technology to attack someone or something they don't like. Go after domain registrars, domain hosts, payment processors, CDN's ISPs, app stores, every point in the chain. If one fouls up punish them all because they have repeatedly demonstrated their ability to coordinate suppressive actions and so they should not be regarded as separate entities for the purpose of a law meant to prevent such.
I'm sure DeSantis knows fully well the folly of his actions, legally speaking, and he knows that folly is a top seller among the rabid GOP base. DeSantis is also aware of how much all this folly costs the public, and he doesn't care. And he'll continue to be elected. Sad state of affairs. Sad state of Florida.
DeSantis' law is unconstitutional. If such a law were passed, a political candidate could declare himself a neo-Nazi on Facebook without fear of suspension. This is totally ridiculous and it won't happen. However, you yourself manage to respect the rules of this forum. Why would you allow a political candidate to break them without suffering the consequences?
Seem the judge in this case doesn't actually understand what 230 is. As he repeatedly stated in his opinion, the private business is allowed to "edit" it's content. Unfortunately, the judge doesn't realize that his characterization thusly precludes these organizations from their legal protections under 230. And having characterized them as such, just opened the door to them being treated like the publishers they are, and not the utilities they claimed they were. We shall see what the outcome is here, but given this legal finding, this judge has pretty effectively pushed social media platforms into the litigious world they should inhabit.
Taking sides in an election campaign by allowing one candidate a platform and banning another could be viewed as an in-kind political contribution worth lots of dollars. Typical liberal judge.
If ATT let's Democrats use their phone lines but doesn't let Republicans, that's a campaign contribution.
You don't think that ATT can look up a political candidate's phone number, lol? Or maybe you think people at ATT are ignorant of who's running in an election?
I think the people at ATT only care about money and are not wasting their time looking up every single person that uses their services. Do you have an example of ATT doing this?
Sorry, I am not a fan of stupid "what if" games. Lets try and stick to reality and not your partisan fueled delusions.
I butted in by responding to someone that quoted my own post? Seems it was you that butted in, not me
Touche. My bad. I'm still amazed you think a phone company can't get a politician's phone number, though, lol.
And I am even more amazed you think they would care to do so. You really do not seem to understand how business work
Like I said, it seemed to be a hypothetical case to prove a point about social media companies that put their thumbs on the political scales during elections. You know, to make the issue easier for some to understand.
Yes, so sad we did not elect this Democrat instead, passed out in his own vomit in a hotel room with meth and a gay prostitute....
