dudmuck
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I still want to see what happens if a candidate in FL starts mass-posting outright lies about Ron DeSantis and Facebook, Twitter do nothing about it, for fear of running afoul of this new dumbass law.>No, free speech is not dead in America. Limiting free speech never applied private citizens or private corporations. It applies to the government. Ironically, it's Republicans who are trying to kill free speech as Florida passed a bill restricting free speech on private companies.No, free speech is not dead in America. Limiting free speech never applied private citizens or private corporations. It applies to the government. Ironically, it's Republicans who are trying to kill free speech as Florida passed a bill restricting free speech on private companies.Serious answer here, from Trump's biggest fan (me)....
No re-tweets, no likes, no loving replies from the cult members.
The blog failed to stroke his enormous ego, so Trump killed it.
Good riddance!
It just goes to show that censorship stinks. Very few are interested in only hearing the "official word," with no chance to comment or even express one's opinion via thumbs up or thumbs down votes.
It's why most of us are here at USMB, probably. We get to hear a variety of opinions, and optionally interact with the posted opinions if we choose to do so.
Blogs without a comment option fare similarly.
Perhaps he had hoped that people would copy and paste his posts to Twitter and Facebook, in a type of free-speech rebellion against the Big Tech heavy-handed censorship. Unfortunately free speech is so censored these days, that even reposting Donald Trump's words is banned these days...
Twitter bans ‘From the Desk of Donald J. Trump’ account for the crime of reproducing his words
Twitter has banned an account that is not run by Donald Trump for reproducing his words on Twitter.thepostmillennial.com
And of course there are the page views, which were undoubtedly monitored closely.
Free speech is dead in America. Self-appointed micro-dosing CEOs are more powerful than the president of the United States. They censor truth, and mark it as false (e.g. Wuhan). And you Leftists think it is funny, because you don't care what the truth is, only that your Socialist agenda gets propelled, even if it sacrifices fundamental American values. It is cause for great alarm.
That's a twisted way of thinking. The Florida bill prevents the companies from inappropriately restricting the free speech of the users that use their platforms.
I suppose the SCOTUS will decide in the end, but the bill obviously promotes the free speech rights of the citizens at the expense of limiting the power of some giant companies which have arguably been abusing their power to restrict the free expression of citizens for political and financial gain.
- Platforms cannot ban or deprioritize candidates for state office.
- Platforms cannot ban or deprioritize any news outlet meeting certain size requirements.
- Platforms must be transparent about moderation processes and give users notice of moderation actions.
- Users and the state will have the right to sue companies that violate the law. Statutory fines could be as high as $250,000 per day for some offenses.
It's interesting how Leftists normally side against big companies ("tax the rich!"), but when it comes to censoring Conservatives, they side with "rights" of the corporations on 1A grounds, because the Corps are on their side.
The bill benefits millions of citizens. Aw, the poor corporations can't censor as much as they used to.
I really don't want Twitter, Google, and Facebook deciding our elections for us by picking and choosing the candidates which are allowed to have audiences on their platforms.
Regards,
Jim
