{"id":1919946,"date":"2023-04-27T07:56:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T11:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-breaks-silence-on-disney-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T07:57:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T11:57:43","slug":"desantis-breaks-silence-on-disney-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-breaks-silence-on-disney-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Breaks Silence on Disney Lawsuit"},"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\">12<\/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%2Fdesantis-breaks-silence-on-disney-lawsuit%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=1919946&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--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0427\/68f374a9-624b-4a4b-8e2c-d41b31275048\/audio.mp3?length=4112397&#038;duration=343\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Disney and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis are in a legal battle, and DeSantis is not holding back. He recently spoke out against the lawsuit, calling it a political move without merit. DeSantis also accused Disney of lacking transparency and accountability, which is why he ended the special privileges that the company enjoyed for decades. Disney sued DeSantis for revoking these privileges, claiming that it was retaliation for the company&#8217;s opposition to the governor&#8217;s Parental Rights in Education legislation. DeSantis denies this and says that the privileges were not good for the state of Florida. Disney has accused DeSantis of engaging in &#8220;a targeted campaign of government retaliation&#8221; and violating free speech laws. The company is calling for a repeal of the law that ended its special privileges. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5218417\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/04\/24\/id5218417-Walt-Disney-logo-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t\tThe Walt Disney Co. logo appears on a screen above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on Aug. 8, 2017. (Richard Drew\/AP Photo)<br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h2>DeSantis Speaks Out<\/h2>\n<p>During a press conference in Israel, DeSantis spoke out against the lawsuit, saying that he doesn&#8217;t think it has merit and that it&#8217;s a political move. He also accused Disney of lacking transparency and accountability, which is why he ended the company&#8217;s special privileges. DeSantis says that the privileges were not good for the state of Florida and that he brought accountability by ending them.<\/p>\n<h2>Disney&#8217;s Lawsuit<\/h2>\n<p>Disney is accusing DeSantis of engaging in &#8220;a targeted campaign of government retaliation&#8221; and violating free speech laws. The company claims that DeSantis revoked its special privileges as punishment for its opposition to the governor&#8217;s Parental Rights in Education legislation. Disney is calling for a repeal of the law that ended its special privileges and accusing DeSantis of being anti-business and unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<h3>Lawsuit Details<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Disney accuses DeSantis of violating free speech laws<\/li>\n<li>DeSantis denies this and says that the privileges were not good for the state of Florida<\/li>\n<li>Disney is calling for a repeal of the law that ended its special privileges<\/li>\n<li>DeSantis accuses Disney of lacking transparency and accountability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Disney Calls for Repeal<\/h3>\n<p>The controversy stems from Disney&#8217;s opposition to a law dubbed the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Say Gay&#8221; bill. Florida lawmakers passed the Parental Rights in Education act, which bans instruction of gender identity and sexual orientation in public schools for kindergarten through third grade. DeSantis signed the law into effect, and Disney is calling for a repeal of the law that ended its special privileges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday broke his silence on a lawsuit brought against him by Disney, describing it as a political move that lacks merit, while accusing the company of lacking accountability and transparency. DeSantis made the remarks during a press conference in Israel, where he faced questions on the lawsuit, the latest move<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":1919947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[6449,4980,6344,4585,5796],"class_list":["post-1919946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-breaks","tag-desantis","tag-disney","tag-lawsuit","tag-silence"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919946","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\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1919947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}