On Wednesday, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his proposal called the “Digital Bill of Rights” aimed at protecting the people of Florida from big tech companies. This proposal is designed to safeguard citizens from the potential overreach of these companies and their harmful practices.
By now, most of us have seen the “Twitter Files,” and if you haven’t, you should. It’s deeply concerning how rooted Big Tech has been in our politics, FBI, censorship and lives in general.
Something’s got to give, and it looks like DeSantis is doing just that.
#BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis announces “Digital Bill of Rights” to protect Floridians from Big Tech
– Private conversations “without Big Tech surveilling you”
– Participating in online platforms without “unfair censorship”
– Knowing how search engines manipulate search results pic.twitter.com/BbTSbuw9Yn— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) February 15, 2023
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Under this bill, Floridians will have the right to participate in online platforms without being subjected to censorship, to engage in private conversations without surveillance by Big Tech and to be informed of how search engines manipulate search results.
The proposed bill will also protect children from “online harms” and prevent companies from selling minors’ information without the consent of their parents. These are great and necessary things that need to be implemented in the social media cesspool.
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– Right to control “personal data” on largest platforms
– Protecting children from “online harms”— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) February 15, 2023
When you think about our society, and how most of it is lived online, it is frightening to think of the level of censorship, disinformation and breaches of privacy that it has had. If most of the time people are on their devices, then most of the time they are existing in a polluted, parallel reality which is mostly distorted.
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The ills that it has caused society are too immeasurable to list. If you lived any of your life as an adult without…
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