{"id":1589808,"date":"2022-08-04T18:35:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T22:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589808"},"modified":"2022-08-04T18:35:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T22:35:44","slug":"legal-battle-over-floridas-big-tech-censorship-law-may-impact-future-of-free-speech-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legal-battle-over-floridas-big-tech-censorship-law-may-impact-future-of-free-speech-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Battle Over Florida\u2019s Big Tech Censorship Law May Impact Future of Free Speech on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flegal-battle-over-floridas-big-tech-censorship-law-may-impact-future-of-free-speech-on-social-media%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589808&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>News Analysis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recent controversies stoked by alleged efforts of leading tech platforms to ban or \u201cde-platform\u201d content on political grounds\u2014which some claim was behind Twitter\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/twitter-stops-censoring-epoch-times-content-after-outcry_4632452.html?utm_source=ai&#038;utm_medium=search\">temporary blocking<\/a>\u00a0last week of all links to articles running in The Epoch Times\u2014have prompted fresh debate over the legal rights of users of these platforms and what the First Amendment does, and does not, guarantee.<\/p>\n<p>In the view of some legal experts, while the spirit of the First Amendment unmistakably favors freedom of expression, its explicit language leaves those who have been banned or blocked with little legal recourse, calling for new approaches, including potentially an antitrust case against the tech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-companies-2\">companies<\/a> whose dominance is so entrenched that they shape public discourse in a putatively free society.<\/p>\n<p> SB 7072\u2019s Uncertain Fate <\/p>\n<p>Some people have eagerly awaited the outcome of an ongoing case, NetChoice v. Moody, in which tech and social media companies represented by the trade association NetChoice have challenged a Florida law, SB 7072, which sought to bar the platforms from censoring content from any candidates running for statewide or national office. While the litigation pertains to the rights specifically of Florida users of social media platforms, it has gained national attention and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/texas-attorney-general-leads-10-state-coalition-supporting-florida-ban-on-big-tech-censorship_4018271.html?utm_source=ai&#038;utm_medium=search\">support in other states<\/a>, and is closely watched by tech companies around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced partly in response to the decision of Facebook and Twitter in January 2021 to kick former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> off their platforms, SB 7072 purports to move the decision to \u201cde-platform\u201d a candidate out of the hands of the big tech companies and place it in the hands of the end users, Florida citizens, who are free to delete or block any content they wish.<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s office promoted the statute not just as one benefiting candidates, but as a populist measure, declaring in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/2021\/05\/24\/governor-ron-desantis-signs-bill-to-stop-the-censorship-of-floridians-by-big-tech\/\">statement<\/a>, \u201cAll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Analysis Recent controversies stoked by alleged efforts of leading tech platforms to ban or \u201cde-platform\u201d content on political grounds\u2014which some claim was behind Twitter\u2019s temporary blocking\u00a0last week of all links to articles running in The Epoch Times\u2014have prompted fresh debate over the legal rights of users of these platforms and what the First Amendment [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":669,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}