The explicit exception for Disney was pretty brazen, but I guess the legislators knew this law had no chance of actually standing anyway. Just more grandstandin

The explicit exception for Disney was pretty brazen, but I guess the legislators knew this law had no chance of actually standing anyway. Just more grandstanding to whip everyone's current favorite whipping boys. I have no love of Facebook and Google. Don't use their services. But for better or worse, they own their data centers. Your account is a set of files on servers they can burn to the ground if they so choose. The rights of property owners have always been first and foremost the most sacrosanct of all rights enshrined in American tradition. Whether you agree with that or not, it's the way our Constitution works. You can't compel private property owners to host content on their property. They can ban, at will, for any reason. It doesn't have to be fair. It doesn't have to balanced. They're allowed to be politically motivated. They're allowed to be wrong. If you think we need a public digital square, then it needs to actually be public. These are legislators. They can propose a publicly funded alternative to private social media that would have to respect free speech rights because it would be part of the government.