Florida Republican GovRonDeSantis announced Tuesday that his party intends to end a special carve-out for Disney in a recently passed anti-censorship social media law.
Disney's online streaming platform, Disney+, could be forced to carry certain user-generated comments if the Florida Republicans succeed in taking away Disney's special privileges in the law, which has been put on pause by a court ruling.
"We're going to look at our options because I think these are really significant issues," said DeSantis."To have a free society governing ourselves, you really need to have people stand up and speak the truth." "When you've had a lot of these big institutions, from media to tech, that have really been corrupted by ideology, they don't want you speaking the truth. When you speak the truth, that threatens their position and power," DeSantis added.to make it illegal to ban state political candidates from Facebook and Twitter, and it would dole out penalties of $250,000 a day to social media companies for any statewide candidate removed from a platform.
The bill also forces social media giants to give users seven days' notice before they are likely to be banned in order to give them a chance to change their behavior and resolve the problem on the platform.
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