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TALLAHASSEE Ron DeSantis signed legislation Monday that allows Florida to impose fines on social media platforms that ban users – like many did to former President Trump, the Republican governor’s political mentor.
The bill (SB 7072) swept through the GOP-controlled Legislature last month on votes that broke almost strictly along party lines. DeSantis again came to Trump’s defense after signing the measure Monday in Miami.
“When you de-platform the president of the United States but you let Ayatollah Khamenei (Iran’s supreme leader) talk about killing Jews, that is wrong,” DeSantis said, revisiting an issue last year involving Twitter that had brought condemnation from the Trump White House.
DeSantis signs bill blocking big tech censorship
By Jim Saunders and Tom Urban
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MIAMI - Taking aim at Silicon Valley, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a measure to crack down on large social-media companies that block users from their platforms.
DeSantis, who made the issue one of his top priorities during this year’s legislative session, described Florida as a trailblazer and said the bill would protect free speech. What we have seen in recent years is a shift away from internet platforms and social-media platforms from really being liberating forces to now being enforcers of orthodoxy, DeSantis said. So, their primary mission or one of their major missions seems to be suppressing ideas that are either inconvenient to the narrative or which they personally disagree with.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a measure to crack down on large social-media companies that block users from their platforms.
DeSantis made the issue a priority after former President Donald Trump was blocked from Facebook and Twitter after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Taking aim at Silicon Valley, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a measure to crack down on large social-media companies that block users from their platforms.
DeSantis, who made the issue one of his top priorities during this year’s legislative session, described Florida as a “trailblazer” and said the bill would protect free speech.
Florida governor OKs social media crackdown
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Gov. Ron DeSantis signs social media crackdown
TALLAHASSEE Ron DeSantis signed legislation Monday that allows Florida to impose fines on social media platforms that ban users – like many did to former President Trump, the Republican governor’s political mentor.
The bill (SB 7072) swept through the GOP-controlled Legislature last month on votes that broke almost strictly along party lines. DeSantis again came to Trump’s defense after signing the measure Monday in Miami.
“When you de-platform the president of the United States but you let Ayatollah Khamenei (Iran’s supreme leader) talk about killing Jews, that is wrong,” DeSantis said, revisiting an issue last year involving Twitter that had brought condemnation from the Trump White House.
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