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Submission + - Florida passes law with huge fines for social networks deplatforming Florida can (orlandosentinel.com)

Submitted by zantafio
zantafio writes: SB 7072 imposes fines on five major tech companies â" Google, Apple, Twitter, Facebook and Amazon â" if they remove political candidates from their platforms for more than 14 days. The fines range from $100,000 to $250,000 per day for statewide candidates and up to $25,000 per day for other candidates.

And if you had any doubt that Florida is akin to a banana republic, thereâ(TM)s this gem of an amendment: Disney, Universal and any theme park owner that operates a search engine or information service are exempted.

Comment let's make a real world analogy.... (Score 0) 102

by zantafio (#60816500) Attached to: Original Jailbreak App Store Cydia Sues Apple for its Monopoly
Let's say that I own a flea market, a market place that I physically built myself: I constructed the building, put the wires & utilities, and paved the parking lot. Then I rent booths to vendors, I collect rent and in exchange they sell their stuff inside MY marketplace. Then one day come some jackass named Cydia and that ahole now tells me he's going to sue me because I have a monopoly in renting my booths.

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