{"id":6238,"date":"2021-07-01T08:17:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T08:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1358899"},"modified":"2021-07-01T08:17:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T08:17:11","slug":"floridas-dumb-law-to-punish-social-networks-for-banning-politicians-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=6238","title":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s dumb law to punish social networks for banning politicians is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/tnw?filter_last=1&amp;fit=1280%2C640&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2021%2F05%2FDonald-Trump-50043117707_131dd85411_k-e1625126315604.jpg&amp;signature=1a5cae21c92947ea337a38bdad9304ed\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>For a hot second, Florida-based politicians were jumping with joy at the sight of a law that punished&nbsp;social media companies for banning politicians. But now, a federal judge has put a hold on it.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/federal-judge-puts-florida-deplatforming-law-hold-citing-first-amendme-rcna1288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a>, Judge Robert Hinkle blocked the law \u2014 just before it was scheduled to come into effect today. He said that the law would violate the free speech rights of social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Hinkle\u2019s best line from the ruling was, \u201cT<span>his is an instance of burning the house to roast a pig.\u201d That\u2019s t-shirt worthy. He added that the proposed law was \u201cviewpoint-based,\u201d indicating it was motivated by trying to combat the perceived liberal bias of tech platforms.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The controversial law rule barred permanent de-platforming and limited suspensions to just 14 days. Plus, it detailed fines up to $250,00 a day for social media companies.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, then-US President Donald Trump was banned from <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/donald-trump-has-been-permanently-banned-from-twitter\">Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube<\/a>. He was barred for breaking community rules of these platforms after the Capitol riots in January. In April, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/nod-donald-trump-florida-set-ban-big-tech-deplatforming-rcna784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">to show solidarity with Trump<\/a>, Florida passed this deplatforming law.&nbsp;<span>Good thing Hinkle intervened in time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/florida-court-deplatforming-social-media-law-block\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a hot second, Florida-based politicians were jumping with joy at the sight of a law that punished&nbsp;social media companies for banning politicians. But now, a federal judge has put a hold&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}