Budget passes with little time for review, public input By: Trevor Brown Oklahoma Watch May 24, 2021
Oklahoma Senate President Pro Tem Greg Treat, left, poses with Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell, center, and House Speaker Charles McCall. (Photo by Whitney Bryen/Oklahoma Watch)
It didn’t take long for arguably the most important bill of the 2021 session to work its way through the oftentimes tedious and laborious legislative process.
A week and three hours after Gov. Kevin Stitt and Republican leaders announced the framework of the state’s $8.8 billion spending plan, the annual budget bill passed the Legislature Thursday on its way to the governor’s desk.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to sign bill banning social media deplatforming | 1 May 2021 | Social media companies would be unable to permanently kick people off their platforms under a tough new Florida law. The bill, passed by the GOP-dominated state Legislature Thursday and awaiting Gov. Ron DeSantis s signature, would make it a crime to remove state political candidates from Twitter and Facebook, and would mete out penalties of $250,000 a day for any statewide candidate who is deplatformed. Removing more local candidates would cost the company $25,000 a day. The bill also requires tech companies to give users seven days notice that they are at risk of being banned and offer them the opportunity to correct the issue.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is slated to sign a bill banning social media companies from “deplatforming,” “shadow banning,” and “censoring” its users. SB 7072, passed by Florida’s House and Senate and was sent to the governor for signing on Friday.
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New York Postreported:
Social media companies would be unable to permanently kick people off their platforms under a tough new Florida law.
The bill, passed by the GOP-dominated state Legislature Thursday and awaiting Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signature, would make it a crime to remove state political candidates from Twitter and Facebook, and would mete out penalties of $250,000 a day for any statewide candidate who is deplatformed.
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Florida is poised to become the first state to take action against Big Tech companies that engage in biased censorship. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is reportedly set to sign a bill that would punish social media companies who de-platform politicians.
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The bill, passed by the GOP-dominated state Legislature Thursday and awaiting Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signature, would make it a crime to remove state political candidates from Twitter and Facebook, and would mete out penalties of $250,000 a day for any statewide candidate who is deplatformed.
Removing more local candidates would cost the company $25,000 a day.
The bill would also require tech companies to provide users with seven days’ notice that they are subject to being banned and allow them to remedy the issue. It would still allow them to suspend users for up to 14 days.