The Florida Deplatforming Law is Unconstitutional. Always has Been.

in #socialmedia3 years ago



Last week, the Florida Legislature passed a bill prohibiting social media platforms from “knowingly deplatforming” a candidate (the Transparency in Technology Act, SB 7072), on pain of a fine of up $250k per day...

Source: The Florida Deplatforming Law is Unconstitutional. Always has Been. | Electronic Frontier Foundation

While I'm not going to suggest that you like what company's like Facebook and Twitter do regarding censorship because their policies are horrible. However, I would say that allowing government to dictate such rules would be even worse. And that's basically what courts have decided in the past. This law will be found unconstitutional because all other such laws have and this one is not fundamentally different. It is a political stunt and nothing more.

The fact of the matter is, despite how popular Twitter and Facebook may be today, their time will pass as the time of MySpace and Friendster passed before them. They are no doubt dominant today but there are plenty of platforms to choose from for your social media consumption, including this one. These are private companies and should be allowed to have whatever stupid policies they want. Tired of their crap? Stop using them.