Barely a day after being banished from Facebook, Australian MP Craig Kelly has acted swiftly to propose a new Bill that will seek to rein in the power of Big Tech companies like Facebook. The Independent Member for Hughes is basing the Bill on a similar law passed overnight in Florida that will penalise social media companies if they remove political candidates from their platform, a practice also known as de-platforming. According to the Florida law, tech giants like Google, Facebook, or Twitter face fines of around $100,000 per day for each day a state-wide candidate is banned from their platform, and $10,000 fines for other candidates. “The market power of the foreign controlled tech-giants and their ability to censor political speech is an immediate and direct threat to our democracy,” Kelly told The Epoch Times. “We have seen in Australia Facebook acting as a media thug and bully, who …
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