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New Florida Law Fights Big Tech

Ron DeSantis

&NewLine;<p>Yesterday&comma; I wrote an article on Facebook banning a business in Florida from advertising a new line of products in support of first responders and law enforcement officers&period; In my opinion&comma; this sort of censorship should never happen within our nation to any citizen with any opinion or desire to support anything they choose to&period; No matter if it is online or offline&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"wp-block-heading" id&equals;"h-apparently-and-thankfully-i-am-not-the-only-american-who-carries-this-opinion">Apparently&comma; and thankfully&comma; I am not the only American who carries this opinion&period; <&sol;h4>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As I wrote in the article&comma; I had missed some new news that Florida Governor Ron Desantis had also just signed on a new law&period; It protects private citizens and public officials both from big tech suppression&period; So now&comma; with the new law&comma; the people have the power to stand up to Big Tech&period; It gives them the right to sue any organization in media or technology that attempts to stop free speech&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As of yesterday&comma; from a report from Newsmax&comma; any person in Florida has the ability to sue Big Tech companies for up to &dollar;100&comma;000 in damages for any &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;deplatforming&period;&&num;8221&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The new bill is a strong defense against organizations&&num;8217&semi; power to silence viewpoints that do not fit the modern media narrative imposed over the public&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In a statement Monday night&comma; Desantis said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This session&comma; we took action to ensure that &OpenCurlyQuote;We the People’ … are guaranteed protection against the Silicon Valley elites… Many in our state have experienced censorship and other tyrannical behavior firsthand in Cuba and Venezuela&period; If Big Tech censors enforce rules inconsistently&comma; to discriminate in favor of the dominant Silicon Valley ideology&comma; they will now be held accountable&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Ron Desantis said in a tweet&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Today&comma; we level the playing field between celebrity and citizen on social media&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In an article from the CBN &lpar;Christian Broadcast News&rpar;&comma; Desantis also says&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Some of these massive companies… are exerting a power over our population that really has no precedent in American history&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"wp-block-heading" id&equals;"h-the-new-bill-florida-s-senate-bill-7072-is-now-law-it-puts-the-power-back-into-the-hands-of-everyday-americans-to-stand-up-to-censorship">The new bill&comma; Florida’s Senate Bill 7072&comma; is now law&period; It puts the power back into the hands of everyday Americans to stand up to censorship&period; <&sol;h4>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Now the question remains&colon; who will be the first to stand up for their own rights against Big Tech&quest; Loaded Cannon Distillery seems like the perfect candidate to test out the new Florida law against Big Tech&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Since Facebook banned Florida’s own local business Loaded Cannon Distillery from advertising their new product line of spirits that also planned on giving a percentage of the profits to first responders and law enforcement for the Back the Blue movement&comma; it seems to be the opportune case to use the new law and put the legislation into motion as soon as possible&period; With the new law&comma; Loaded Cannon Distillery should be able to sue Facebook for damages&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Also&comma; if they won the case&comma; they could even donate more money to support law enforcement and first responders&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>How cool would it be to see a small business actually make a big win against Big Tech with support of our own law structure&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Sounds like that is just the way it should be&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Thanks Ron&period; For whatever it is worth&comma; keep up the good work&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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