Aiming squarely at Big Tech, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed a digital bill of rights for Floridians.
If passed by the legislature in the session beginning in March, it will enshrine in law, according to the governor’s office, various fundamental rights.
Floridians will have the right to private, in-person conversations without Big Tech surveillance and be able to participate in online platforms without unfair censorship.
They’ll also have the right to know how internet search engines manipulate search results, to control their personal data, and they’ll have the right to protect children from online harm.
Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee, saluted Twitter CEO Elon Musk for his supporting the right to crack jokes. File photo from June 22, 2022. (Matthew Pearson/CPI Studios)
The legislation will extend DeSantis’s previous barring of the Tik Tok video platform on state government devices to those of local governments and ban it from public schools and colleges….