{"id":8564,"date":"2021-02-03T14:29:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T19:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=8564"},"modified":"2021-02-03T14:29:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T19:29:57","slug":"did-you-know-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/02\/03\/did-you-know-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Paul Waldmiller<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you know that Governor Ron DeSantis recently identified discrimination against political<br>conservatives via big tech companies? Recently he and Republicans in the Florida Legislature stated that<br>they will back a bill that punishes Twitter, Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon for limiting free speech<br>on either social media platforms or other areas on the internet.<br>Governor DeSantis speaking at the Capital in Tallahassee stated specifically that \u201cAs these companies<br>have grown and their influence has expanded, Big Tech has come to look more like Big Brother with<br>every passing day. But this is 2021, not 1984, and this is real life, not George Orwell\u2019s fiction. The<br>companies exert monopoly power over a centrally important forum in the public discourse and the<br>access of information that Floridians rely on.\u201d<br>DeSantis went on in his statement to members of the press, \u201cWhat began as a group of upstart<br>companies from the West Coast has since transformed into an industry of monopoly communications<br>platforms that monitor, influence, and control the flow of information in our country and among our<br>citizens, and they do this to an extent hitherto unimaginable.\u201d<br>The Governor and the GOP have already put in their proposed bill what they consider are protections for<br>every Floridian including;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Disclosure requirements enforced by Florida\u2019s election authorities for tech companies that<br>favor one candidate over another.<\/li><li>Fines of $100,000 per day levied on tech companies that suspend candidates for elected office in<br>Florida from their platforms.<\/li><li>Daily fines for any tech company \u201cthat uses their content and user-related algorithms to suppress or<br>prioritize the access of any content related to a political candidate or cause on the ballot.\u201d<\/li><li>Mandatory opt-outs from big techs content filters, a solution to tech censorship.<\/li><li>A private right of action for Florida citizens against tech companies that violate this condition.<\/li><li>Power for the Florida Attorney General to bring cases against tech companies that violate these<br>conditions under the state\u2019s \u201cUnfair and Deceptive Practices Act.\u201d<br>and, + Greater transparency requirements.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Waldmiller Did you know that Governor Ron DeSantis recently identified discrimination against politicalconservatives via big tech companies? 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