{"id":35553,"date":"2021-05-24T17:03:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T00:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35553"},"modified":"2021-05-24T17:03:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T00:03:07","slug":"florida-gov-desantis-signs-bill-to-fine-tech-companies-for-banning-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35553","title":{"rendered":"Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill to fine tech companies for banning politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/uhwmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhhmmpny_gtkcrrgygdctycnmcrlw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/uhwmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhhmmpny_gtkcrrgygdctycnmcrlw.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1621986594167000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGInuagU4X7wlsNeCSui9gk1-eQCw\">Ron DeSantis<\/a>\u00a0(R) signed a bill Monday that will fine social media platforms that try to permanently ban political candidates.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis and other Republicans have touted the bill as a way to protect Floridians over accusations of tech giants censoring GOP lawmakers, but it faced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bplbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmppbbcgp_gtkcrrgygdctycnmcrlw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bplbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmppbbcgp_gtkcrrgygdctycnmcrlw.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1621986594167000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE2AIkEbSDepJutzaGdSmQ-qTse4Q\">pushback from Democrats<\/a>\u00a0in the state legislature and the tech industry over imposing control over how platforms moderate content.<\/p>\n<p>The bill prohibits most tech companies from banning politicians in the state. Under the newly signed law, the Florida Election Commission can impose fines of $250,000 per day on any social media company that deplatforms any candidate for statewide office and $25,000 per day for deplatforming candidates for non-statewide offices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis\u00a0(R) signed a bill&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35554,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35553\/revisions\/35554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}