Ron DeSantis Announces 7 Strict Regulations To Crack Down On Big Tech Once And For All
By: Chris Donaldson
This is indeed the best of news. The governor of Florida vid a great American! He’s ready to stand up for everyday Christian and conservative people who are being abused by the fascist thugs that are big tech social media. He’s doing a great job on fighting for both economic freedom vs the covidians and for free speech vs the goons that shut down our former President and Parler.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is fighting back against the abuses of Big Tech companies that have accumulated vast amounts of power which they are using to shut down free speech in America.
On Tuesday, DeSantis threw his backing behind legislation that will take the fight directly to the unaccountable Democrat-aligned Silicon Valley tech giants who have abused their dominance of the industry to silence conservatives and crush dissent to one-party rule.
The Sunshine State leader continues to stand apart from other Republican governors for his willingness to defy the increasingly authoritarian left by resisting demands that he lock down his state and impose the forced mask mandates championed by Democrats including Joe Biden.
Now he is taking the fight directly to those who hate us for our freedoms in an act of defiance that could serve as an inspiration to other GOP leaders.
DeSantis condemned the Big Tech cartel oligarchs whose actions he compared to Big Brother in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 :
“As these companies have grown and their influence has expanded, Big Tech has come to look more like Big Brother with each passing day,” he said.
“But this is 2021, not 1984, and this is real life, not George Orwell’s fiction. These companies exert monopoly power over a centrally important forum in the public discourse and the access of information that Floridians rely on,” he added.
He then went on to list 7 major regulations that Florida would use to crack down on Big Tech abuses (via Breitbart News):
1: Mandatory opt-outs from big tech’s content filters, a solution to tech censorship first proposed by Breitbart News in 2018.
2: A private right of action for Floridian citizens against tech companies that violate this condition.
3: Fines of $100,000 per day levied on tech companies that suspend candidates for elected office in Florida from their platforms.
4: Daily fines for any tech company “that uses their content and user-related algorithms to suppress or prioritize the access of any content related to a political candidate or cause on the ballot.”
5: Greater transparency requirements.
6: Disclosure requirements enforced by Florida’s election authorities for tech companies that favor one candidate over another.
7: Power for the Florida attorney general to bring cases against tech companies that violate these conditions under the state’s Unfair and Deceptive Practices Act.
#Thread@GovRonDeSantis Announcing Steps The State Of Florida Will Take To Deal With Big Tech "These platforms have played an increasingly decisive role in elections, and have negatively impacted Americans who dissent from orthodoxies favored by the Big Tech Cartel." 1/ 
More from Governor DeSantis:
“What began as a group of upstart companies from the west coast has since transformed into an industry of monopoly communications platforms that monitor, influence, and control the flow of information in our country and among our citizens, and they do this to an extent hitherto unimaginable.”
“These platforms have changed from neutral platforms that provided Americans with the freedom to speak to enforcers of preferred narratives. Consequently, these platforms have played an increasingly decisive role in elections, and have negatively impacted Americans who dissent from orthodoxies favored by the Big Tech cartel.”
“The core issue here is this: are consumers going to have the choice to consume the information they choose, or are oligarchs in Silicon Valley going to make those choices for us? No group of people should exercise such power, especially not tech billionaires.”
If Americans wish to live in a free country, it is imperative that tech oligarchs whose practices are disturbingly similar to those of the totalitarian communist regime in China are not allowed to put a stranglehold on free speech and a finger on the scale for the Democrats who seek to accumulate power by any means necessary.
DeSantis is emerging as a formidable 2024 candidate and one fitting to pick up the America First movement now that Donald J. Trump is no longer in the White House.
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This is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Indeed. Just like claims of the election being stolen.
Actually that sounds like a good description of DeSantis' entire career...)
And here I was hoping for Palin. Don't you ever get tired of picking idiots?
Labeling all progressive left democrats as idiots is a sweeping generalization. Clearly it is factually incorrect that every progressive left democrat is an idiot. Your comment is simply trolling.
This:
States that progressive left democrats are defined as idiots. Your comment offers no conditions but deems anyone who is a progressive left democrat is an idiot by definition.
Yet though it was flagged, moderators chose to let it stand. Go figure.
Well gee Xx, I wouldn't know if MY comments are flagged or not. Sounds like you haven't have much luck getting them deleted.
If you think my comment is meta, FLAG it.
Just more dumb shittery.
This one is especially funny:
"Daily fines for any tech company “that uses their content and user-related algorithms to suppress or prioritize the access of any content related to a political candidate or cause on the ballot.”
So even if thousands of people are clicking on some politicians news story, it won't get bumped to front page news for more exposure because that would be "prioritizing the access" using an algorithm. This one definitely cuts both ways.
This list of 7 seems a lot like something Putin or Xi would force on companies doing business in their communist or fascist States. It's rather sad that the whiny loser conservatives are supporting fascism just because they don't think their bullhorns are loud enough anymore.
"Big tech has a loud bullhorn and reaches more people that our conservative leaning social media, we should force them to give us their bullhorn!".
Bunch of fucking whiny fascists.
Block political discussions?
If they did that-- 95% of the entire Internet would shrivel up and die!!!
There is a large group of Republicans who I think of as "Big Government Bepublicans". What they basically want a much bigger Federal Government. n even more bloated federal Bureaucracy!
One with greater expanded power to interfere in our lives.
They want the Federal government to limit our rights to free speech.
They want a bigger government to force more religion into our private lives.
They want a Bigger Government to police even our most personal decisions (for example, a women's decision to her own health-care choices...these Big Government Republicans want the federal government to step in to limit individuals' freedoms...).
And strangely, rather than a belief in the Free Enterprise System, they want more and more Big Government interference in the way private corporations choose to run their businesses. (What this particle article is about!!!)
Ronald Reagan would roll over in his grave!
I wonder if DeSantis, with his desire to expand the powers of Big Government, (as well as attempting to put additional limits on the Free market) is familiar with the ideas and values of President Reagan?
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
--Ronald Reagan
aka Banana Republicans.
Yup, private business must push the conservative talking points or risk being shut down.
Banana Republicans want to legislate morality and legalize discrimination against anyone they consider "sinners".
They also seem to want to invalidate any election they don't win claiming it must have been "rigged" or "stolen" from them as if election results are their possessions that are being taken away.
They want their controlled big government to be allowed to reach into a woman's womb and control big companies that don't cater to their conservative ideals but must stay the hell out of a Christian bakers business that demands the right to discriminate against law abiding tax paying citizens that they consider "sinners".
"A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not." - Ronald Reagan
Today that would read:
"A few months ago, we told the American people Republicans support free enterprise, small government, lowering the deficit, fiscal conservatism, western democracy and a separation between church and State. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not." - Current Banana Republican party
These companies exert monopoly power over a centrally important forum in the public discourse and the access of information that Floridians rely on,” he added.
These companies need to broken up. Some here display vast amounts of ignorant hypocrisy
There is an argument to be made on that somewhere, but it isn't in the seeded article. Nor would it accomplish what the alt+right snowflakes want.
In most cases, when Conservatives support something, Liberals will oppose it-- and vice-versa.
Interestingly, in the case of limiting the power of "Big Tech"-- many on both sides of the aisle agree-- it should be done!
Where they disagree: The reasons why they want to do it, and of course the way they want it done..
IMNSHO, this is all probably a Tempest in the Proverbial Teapot--- while the discussion will generate much sound and fury, much not much of significance will be done.
I've been saying this very thing for many years.
There is no breaking up a company like twitter.
The only way to diminish their so called power would be to do like China and ban the platform and have a state run one.
True. It's only does one thing and it does it well enough.
Slackers. Didn't stop torrent sites from staying up, despite being hated by governments.
Its becoming apparent that many of the Trump supporters here wish our government would operate more like the government of China! Punishing/controlling any busineszszes that the government doesn't like...
Ignorant hypocrisy?
OK-- but what about all the others here, many of whom display enlightened hypocrisy?
Why?
More violent Trumpist fascist rhetoric.
Readers of this column: have you ever noticed that in debates on Social media sites-- when someone doesn't have a good argument to make-- when the facts aren't on their side-- they attend to cover that up by using trite cliched jargon-- high falutin' phrases like: "Jack booted thugs"... (WTF does that mean? Who's actually a "Jack booted thug"? Jeff Bezos? Bill Gates" Mark Zuckerberg?).
Anyway-- what kind of boot is a "Jack boot"? And which, if any of those three wear that sort of boot?
P.S: If one is desperate enough to focus on their choice of footwear-- its obvious that that's the best argument aposter can muster!
Readers of this column: have you ever noticed that in debates on Social media sites-- when someone doesn't have a good argument to make-- when the facts aren't on their side-- they attend to cover that up by using trite cliched jargon-
Oh-- and then there's this unusually quaint (But totally inaccurate!) use of language:
using RICO collusion
WTF is that supposed to mean?
And more specifically-- who in the world of "Big Tech" is violating the Rico stautes? And-- how?
Passed in 1970, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) is a federal law designed to combat organized crime in the United States. It allows prosecution and civil penalties for racketeering activity performed as part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.
Readers of this column: have you ever noticed that in debates on Social media sites-- when someone doesn't have a good argument to make-- when the facts aren't on their side-- they attend to cover that up by using trite cliched jargon-
And then there's this linguistic tour de force:
to affect others like goons do to their bullying victims.
Examples, please!
(Of course there are none-- its all just one big losad of Ka-ka!)
Again-- do you really believe that?
Have you really stopped using Instagram? Google? Even...the Newstalkers?
(If you really feel there's no good left here-- why are you stickin around? Have you ever considered that perhaps you might be happier away from all the Jack Booted Rico Colluding Others Like Goons on "Big tech Social Media" sites like NT?
/sarc
If these companies are suppose to be crushing all dissent and have a one party rule, they sure as hell aren't doing that great of a job.
His bullshit list of demands just reads like, give politicians cart blanche to say whatever they want...
Then give the AG the leeway to go after the companies for whatever he deems are his politician friends being treated unfairly.
...
Do you guys actually read what you are endorsing? This gives politicians free reign over everyday users. Special privileges with a state AG deciding what content is allowed.
This is state control you idiots. Isn't that what you are suppose to be against?
This is state control you idiots. Isn't that what you are suppose to be against?
Their hypocricy know no bounds...
Although I wouldn't go so far as to falsely accuse them of being Jack booted thugs using RICO collusion to affect others like goons do to their bullying victims. Or to say that there is no good left nor any redeeming value in their big tech social media.
Or that It’s time to wage political war upon them and break them!
Break them???
Capitol Insurrection Updates
A U.S. Capitol Police officer who was injured during the siege on the Capitol by pro-Trump extremists has died, bringing the total number of fatalities from the chaos that gripped Washington on Wednesday to five.
Brian Sicknick was a 42-year-old military veteran who had served in the Capitol Police for 12 years, Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., said in a statement, adding that Sicknick was one of his constituents.
He died around 9:30 p.m. ET Thursday "due to injuries sustained while on-duty," Capitol Police said in a statement .
"Officer Sicknick was responding to the riots on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol and was injured while physically engaging with protesters," the law enforcement agency said. "He returned to his division office and collapsed."
Officials said he was later transported to a local hospital but did not survive
Earlier on Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered flags at the U.S. Capitol to be flown at half-staff.
"The sacrifice of Officer Sicknick reminds us of our obligation to those we serve: to protect our country from all threats foreign and domestic," Pelosi said.
We should definitely do a controlled experiment to see how these rules affect delivered content. Let's apply them to Fox News and see what happens.
And Breitbart, Rush Limbaugh, Geller, Gateway, American Thinker and thousands of other over the top websites
that have failed in a fair market to take shares/users away from the two or three winners.
In other words De Santis wants to throw away capitalism.
Which means that DeSantis' plans are empty threats for a problem that does not exist.
Thanks for making my point.
The same level of quality as Volkischer Beobachter.
Another ignorant comment:
At the risk of repeating myself, capitalism favors market share, not conservative ideology.
The opportunities are there. Gab is still up, still espousing the victim-hood and selling Mikes pillows while kissing Greene's ass.
Have fun.
!
Reads like whining to me. A bunch of emotional proclaimed victimhood. The reality is that those in the fringe areas must deal with the society shaped by others. They absolutely will not get their way. That is life; adults work with what we have and do not constantly cry ‘poor me’.
Best to face reality head on and not hide behind fantasies. Life is scary, but it is those who deal with the real world who make a difference. Those frightened few who hide in a fantasy world just get in the way. This is exacerbated by stubborn ignorance.
Did someone say "Mike's Pillows"?
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Parler, where Neo-Nazis go to meet and greet.
Good, Dominion needs the comment records for their lawsuits against Fox and Giuliani .
Dominion's lawyers demand Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Parler preserve posts by Trump and other far-right figures, ahead of threatened defamation lawsuits (msn.com)
As Governor he has a fiduciary duty not to waste time or taxpayer $$ on unconstitutional BS that will not pass the smell test.
As an Attorney he should know better, but I guess the lure of running for President has made him stupid or pandering.
My bad, both.
Oh yeah, I can certainly see Paxton jumping in with both feet. He and Abbott sued the Obama Admin 48 times.
20 cases pending lower case reviews, 12 losses, 9 withdrawals at a cost of 6 million
7 wins.
Right up Stupid Alley. They will love it.
The anti-American Trumpist republic party trumpets the Volkischer Beobachter line.
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!
LMAO !
Some of Trump's neo-Nazi supporters trying to overthrow the government 1/6/21
You do not even care the case? You support without knowing anything about it??
That is irrational. A case may be entirely bogus and you would support it blindly.
A 14 day stay is hardly a win.
Everyone will be back in court on Tuesday...
Self proclaimed "enemies of the state" are like that, lol
You do not know the allegation. These are legal issues. It does not matter if you oppose an EO, that is not the issue. The issue is legal and for that one must know the details of the lawsuit.
Paranoid delusion:
Enemies of the American state will find a welcome home in China, Iran, North Korea, Russia. They will have fulfilling lives in any of those countries where they can express their enmity and hatred of America openly and with support of the governments. Patriotic Americans will be happy to see them go.
I am sure there are many more people who feel the same. Maybe you can spend more time there among like the
minded and less time here, talking to your self.
Oops, another set back....
John Maetz is out
Ex-Parler CEO said he didn't want the platform to work with Trump for fear the president would 'bully' employees into doing what he wanted (msn.com)
and they still won't be back on line Monday...68 minutes from now...
But there are those who still stupidly cling to the demonstrably absurd fantasy that Trump was a great PotUS.
Your claims without substance and, actually, in direct contradiction of objective reality are likely meaningless. There is no credibility in empty claims.
That's a pretty YUGE 'IF' Xx. Bongino relies heavily on the 'influence from Silicon Valley' to distribute his radio show, so it doesn't look like he has much of a handle on 'maneuvering' much of anything.
So DeSantis is a socialist. Got it.
The core issue here is this: are consumers going to have the choice to consume the information they choose, or are oligarchs in Silicon Valley going to make those
Lol seriously?