Florida bill will fine social media sites for banning politicians- except Disney

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/1/22413934/florida-bill-restrict-social-media-politicians-twitter-facebook-disney-trump

by uomo • 5 years ago

10 5 5 years ago

any “information service, system, internet search engine, or access software provider operated by a company that owns and operates” a theme park or large entertainment complex

That is completely ridiculous. I wonder what the justification for this is, but it sounds like a line from "Yes Minister".

a3n• 5 years ago

So politicians are formally setting themselves up as more equal than others, able to violate a site's TOS with impunity, where the rest of us can't.

Royal roads are back, baby!

brutal_chaos_• 5 years ago

Basically. And Disney gets around it because, oh what a shocker, money. I fucking hate our broken ass "democracy." More and more, day by day, it seems to just get worse and worse. (OT, but tangentiallg related: women's rights are on a huge downturn and possibly a move to make women stay home is coming. It's wrapped in warm wording per usual, but the gist is to keep women from the workforce, but given our (American) society, stay at home dads will be more of a thing).

OldHand2018• 5 years ago

Hmm, I think the argument could be made that this violates Article 4 of the Constitution, and almost certainly at odds with the Commerce Clause.

The exclusion of theme parks and entertainment complexes is arbitrary, and not really helped by that state senator’s comment.

jfengel• 5 years ago

Setting aside the theme park idiocy, I'm actually all for limiting bans to 60 days. Go be an asshole in public for a day, then take two months off. Come back, and if you haven't learned your lesson, you get another 60 days to cool off. And yeah, you're on a hair-trigger if you've just come back from a ban.

Reducing assholery by 60/61 seems about as good as banning it 100% to me. I'm even all for letting the Asshole in Chief come back to FB/Twitter -- though of all people he should be able to just start up a new ban-free channel (and watch it be overcome by spammers in a few seconds, because that's what happens when a channel doesn't moderate).

Florida bill will fine social media sites for banning politicians- except Disney

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