If you cannot get results at the Federal level...

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...go for the State.  Great news from Florida - from Palm Beach station WFLX:

DeSantis takes aim against social media platforms
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference Tuesday to announce the support of legislation to protect social media users’ privacy, saying “big tech has come to look more like big brother with each passing day.”

The governor said the legislation will seek a slew of changes that DeSantis says will protect privacy and censorship by social media platforms.

He called out Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple and Amazon for being "nameless, faceless boards of censors."

"Over the years, however, these platforms have changed from neutral platforms that provided Americans with the freedom to speak to enforcers of preferred narratives," DeSantis said.

The governor said he believes social media has played an "increasingly decisive role in elections and negatively impacted Americans who dissent from orthodoxy favored by the big tech cartel."

Wonderful - can't get Section 230 repealed at the Federal level, go after them at the State level.
Zero Hedge has the list of what DeSantis is looking to accomplish:

    • Mandatory opt-outs from big tech’s content filters, a solution to tech censorship first proposed by Breitbart News in 2018.
    • A private right of action for Floridian citizens against tech companies that violate this condition.
    • Fines of $100,000 per day levied on tech companies that suspend candidates for elected office in Florida from their platforms.
    • Daily fines for any tech company “that uses their content and user-related algorithms to suppress or prioritize the access of any content related to a political candidate or cause on the ballot.”
    • Greater transparency requirements.
    • Disclosure requirements enforced by Florida’s election authorities for tech companies that favor one candidate over another.
    • Power for the Florida attorney general to bring cases against tech companies that violate these conditions under the state’s Unfair and Deceptive Practices Act.

"What began as a group of upstart companies from the west coast has since transformed into an industry of monopoly communications platforms that monitor, influence, and control the flow of information in our country and among our citizens, and they do this to an extent hitherto unimaginable," said DeSantis, adding "These platforms have changed from neutral platforms that provided Americans with the freedom to speak to enforcers of preferred narratives. Consequently, these platforms have played an increasingly decisive role in elections, and have negatively impacted Americans who dissent from orthodoxies favored by the Big Tech cartel."

Tip of the hat to Don Surber for these two links.  If I didn't have such a nice place here in WA State, I would seriously think about moving. Voting with my feet.

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