Evening Edition: Tech Companies Sue Over Florida Social Media Law

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🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Earlier this week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law SB 7072 which looks to restrict the lengths social media companies and websites can go to moderate user content and ban their users. Two industry groups representing the largest names in Silicon Valley, The Computer & Communications Industry Association and NetChoice, have co-filed a lawsuit in a Florida federal district court to stop the law from taking effect on July 1st calling it 'unconstitutional'. FOX's Eben Brown speaks with Matt Schruers, President of The Computer & Communications Industry Association, about the lawsuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.0	Friday, May 28th, 2021. I'm Eben Brown, a new Florida law would require social media companies give long
0:47.6	notices on policy changes that could cause politicians to be banned from their services and would even allow for
0:54.5	them to sue over their removal but a tech industry group says it's unconstitutional
1:00.2	and is taking the state to court. Not everybody is always going to agree with every call, but if we don't like how a service
1:06.7	administers its policies, we go to alternatives and that's the marketplace of ideas at work.
1:13.0	This is the Fox News rundown evening edition.
1:17.0	Earlier this week, Florida's prominent Republican governor Ron DeSantis signed a new law into effect
1:27.0	it would allow Florida residents to recover up to $100,000 per claim of being unnecessarily or improperly banned, removed, unlisted, or hidden
1:38.8	on a given social media platform.
1:41.2	Desantis says it will counter the power these companies now enjoy in
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