{"id":538555,"date":"2021-05-24T13:53:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T17:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=538555"},"modified":"2021-05-24T14:20:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:20:39","slug":"desantis-signs-law-allowing-people-to-sue-big-tech-for-deplatforming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-signs-law-allowing-people-to-sue-big-tech-for-deplatforming\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Signs Law Allowing People to Sue &#039;Big Tech&#039; for &#039;Deplatforming&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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-signs-law-allowing-people-to-sue-big-tech-for-deplatforming%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=538555&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-185.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, on Monday signed a bill that allows &#8220;any person to sue Big Tech companies for up to $100,000 in damages&#8221;&nbsp;for &#8220;deplatforming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This session, we took action to ensure that \u2018We the People\u2019 \u2014 real Floridians across the Sunshine State \u2014 are guaranteed protection against the Silicon Valley elites,&#8221; DeSantis said 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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>. &#8220;Many in our state have experienced censorship and other tyrannical behavior firsthand in Cuba and Venezuela. If Big Tech censors enforce rules inconsistently, to discriminate in favor of the dominant Silicon Valley ideology, they will now be held accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis\/status\/1396854819130859535\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> on Monday: &#8220;Florida\u2019s Big Tech Bill gives every Floridian the power to fight back against deplatforming and allows any person to sue Big Tech companies for up to $100,000 in damages. Today, we level the playing field between celebrity and citizen on social media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s office said that under the law, &#8220;All Floridians&nbsp;treated unfairly by Big Tech platforms will have the right to sue companies that violate this law \u2014 and win monetary damages. This reform safeguards the rights of every Floridian by requiring social media companies to be transparent about their content moderation practices and give users proper notice of changes to those policies, which prevents Big Tech bureaucrats from \u2018moving the goalposts\u2019 to silence viewpoints they don\u2019t like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It will also allow the state\u2019s attorney general to &#8220;bring action against technology companies that violate this law,&nbsp;under Florida\u2019s Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act,&#8221; and &#8220;if social media platforms are found to have violated antitrust law, they will be restricted from contracting with any public entity. That \u2018antitrust violator\u2019 blacklist&nbsp;imposes real consequences for Big Tech oligopolies\u2019 bottom line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s office also noted that &#8220;Big Tech is prohibited from de-platforming Floridian political candidates,&#8221; and that &#8220;The Florida Election Commission will impose fines of $250,000 per day on any social media company that de-platforms any candidate for statewide office, and $25,000 per day for de-platforming candidates for non-statewide offices. Any Floridian can block any candidate they don\u2019t want to hear from, and that is a right that belongs to each citizen \u2014 it\u2019s not for Big Tech companies to decide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nu\u00f1ez said in a statement that &#8220;What we\u2019ve been seeing across the U.S. is an effort to silence, intimidate, and wipe out dissenting voices by the leftist media and big corporations. Today, by signing SB 7072 into law, Florida is taking back the virtual public square as a place where information and ideas can flow freely. Many of our constituents know the dangers of being silenced or have been silenced themselves under communist rule. Thankfully in Florida we have a Governor that fights against big tech oligarchs that contrive, manipulate, and censor if you voice views that run contrary to their radical leftist narrative.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, on Monday signed a bill that allows &#8220;any person to sue Big Tech companies for up to $100,000 in damages&#8221;\u00a0for &#8220;deplatforming.&#8221; &#8220;This session, we &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312828,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-185.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"DeSantis Signs Law Allowing People to Sue &#039;Big Tech&#039; for &#039;Deplatforming&#039;","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-185.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"DeSantis Signs Law Allowing People to Sue &#039;Big Tech&#039; for &#039;Deplatforming&#039;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538555","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}