The Florida Deplatforming Law Is Unconstitutional

Re:The Florida Deplatforming Law Is Unconstitutional by mech422 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @03:59PM (#27068391)

I'm actually curious what makes anyone think Florida has any jurisdiction? Are any social media companies based in florida, have offices in Florida or 'do business' in Florida? I thought at least one of those had to be true to be bound by the laws of state?

Can Florida create laws that are enforcable over entities with no ties to Florida ?

Also, I like the 'move fast and break things' roller coaster idea!

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Re:The Florida Deplatforming Law Is Unconstitutional by WarOnPrivacy on Thursday May 06, 2021 @04:31PM (#27068725)

> I'm actually curious what makes anyone think Florida has any jurisdiction?

Past state AG efforts against national corporations indicates (to me) that actually being HQ'd in that state isn't necessary.

of note: Twitter has an office in Miami.

However: Regardless of how the state expected to enforce this, the 1A issue makes all of it a moot discussion.

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Re:The Florida Deplatforming Law Is Unconstitutional by mech422 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @04:50PM (#27068892)

oh - didn't know that... I suppose they'd have to stop taking advertising from Florida based entities as well, to be truly 'not doing business' in Florida.

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Re:The Florida Deplatforming Law Is Unconstitutional by caeril on Thursday May 06, 2021 @04:06PM (#27068451)

IANAL, but I do recall that when GDPR passed, The HN Zeitgeist was to tell everyone asking the same question with regard to enforcement on US entities by the EU, that you have to comply, end of story, stop asking questions.

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Re:The Florida Deplatforming Law Is Unconstitutional by mech422 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @04:51PM (#27068904)

I thought the idea there was a lot of the big tech companies had offices in Ireland for tax bennies... and that was part of the EU ?

Anyway, be interesting to see how it all plays out...

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