It's Almost Like They Wanna Target Groups They Don't Like

 Looks like that anti-Big Tech bill in Florida has some caveats: 

TALLAHASSEE –  Gov. Ron DeSantis distanced himself this week from a carve-out for entertainment giant Disney in his crackdown on social-media companies that block users from their platforms.

Lawmakers stuck a provision into the bill aim
ed at keeping the Disney+ streaming service from getting “caught up” in the measure (SB 7072), which is aimed at tech giants such as Facebook and Twitter.

“I think there were concerns about things that I didn't quite think that bill was even going to impact,” DeSantis told reporters Tuesday.

“At the end of the day, that's just how this process works sometimes,” DeSantis continued. “But no, that's not what we want to see. We want to see it apply to the people that are offending right now. And we want to be able to give people the ability to defend their rights if they get censored.”

Just before the Legislature approved the bill, mostly along party lines, an amendment was added to protect theme park operators from a definition of social-media platforms.

The exemption said the definition “does not include any information service, system, internet search engine, or access software provider operated by a company that owns and operates” a theme park or other large entertainment complex.

“The idea is to make sure that we’re capturing social media companies,” said House sponsor Blaise Ingoglia, R-Spring Hill. “And in the definition, it hits a threshold where, quite frankly, Disney Plus winds up meeting that threshold.”

In other words, Ingoglia said the exemption was aimed at making sure Disney Plus “isn’t caught up in this.” The focus remained on Twitter and Facebook, which blocked former President Donald Trump from their platforms after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to prevent certification of President Joe Biden’s election victory.