The counter movement, against governors like DeSantis who went after Big Tech, has begun.
They're using a similar frame work as DeSantis' approach of fining Big Tech for censorship, just in the reverse direction.
Colorado put forward a bill, which, if passed, would allow them to fine websites up to $5000/day, for:
- hosting hate speech
- hosting information that undermines election integrity
- disseminating intentional disinformation
- hosting conspiracy theories
- hosting fake news
Of course, what constitutes each of these would be determined by the noble "fact checkers", or some similar organization.
In terms of election fraud, we seen the most evidence from Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, and, Nevada.
Three additional states where some evidence leaked out of were Colorado, New Mexico, and, Virginia.
That's a conservative estimate for the states Trump won.
It's awfully convenient that in a state where there was fraud (Colorado), the politicians who benefitted from this fraud are trying to heavily penalize people who point out the fraud. It's committing a crime, and using the power gained from that crime to make it illegal (after the fact) for anyone to point out the crime you committed.
The bill:
https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-132
Article on the bill:
Joshua Phillip, of The Epoch Times, breaks it down here:
This seems like a good plan to ensure that no one ever hosts a website from Colorado or registers a corporation that hosts websites or has a social media type website.
If a company has no ties in Colorado, how are they going to collect?
Are they going to police all the websites hosted around the world?
This seems like a virtue signal that only has a down side. I doubt a single website will be affected by this at all. Also, they should get sued for this, by let's say the ACLU or some other similar group. However, the ACLU is just a money making scheme now, they don't sue any true violations of civil rights anymore. In fact, recently, the ACLU has been suing to restrict people's freedoms. Clown world!