HOLY CR*P 🚨 The day Charlie Kirk was killed and everyone was focused on that, Gavin Newsom and California Democrats rammed through an online censorship bill
PENALTIES
If you post something on social media anywhere online that the state of California deems to be hateful, there's a penalty for that reckless violation, a civil penalty of up to $500,000.
For an intentional, knowing or willful violation, a civil penalty of up to $1 million
“SB 771, passing the Assembly on September 10th, 10 days ago. Then on September 16th, passing the Senate completely under our noses, which means right now, all that stands between complete statewide government censorship is Gavin Newsom's signature”
“I exaggerating about how bad this bill is? No, I am not. Here is the actual bill. You can pull this up yourself on the state's website.
The Bill's called SB 771. It's called Personal Rights Liability, Social Media Platforms.
In Section 2, Title 23 of the Bill, it defines the penalties for breaking this new California law
If you post something on social media anywhere online that the state, the State of California deems to be hateful, there's a penalty for that reckless violation, a civil penalty of up to $500,000
For an intentional, knowing or willful violation, a civil penalty of up to $1 million.
That is the definition of the state controlling speech, folks.
— What type of speech is California trying to police here? Well, let's read from the Bill. It says, "This bill protects against online harassment, particularly when directed at historically marginalized groups."
“the State of California's actively passing UK style laws that will fine you for saying the wrong thing. Pretty wild. And this bill is completely done, folks. It's passed in the House, it's passed in the Senate. All that's left is Gavin Newsom signing it into law”
This is all 100% true, he even clipped screenshots from the bill and put it into the video as proof
It's not a personal penalty, it's a platform penalty. It's the platform that would get the penalties under this law. Still bullshit, but not how the poster seems to be claiming it will be. Individual posters would not be fined under this law.
What that will result in, though, is California being able to censor free speech via fiat, nationally, on any platform that bends the knee, which we know FB and MS and others are going to do immediately, and X, Truth, and Gab are not.
It's still censors online speech because now the social media platforms will be banning everything they "think" California will fine them for, regardless of whether it originated in California or somewhere else. Forcing the corps(es) to ban it or face punishment is just a slick, sleazy politician's way of banning something and still be able to hide behind the U.S. Constitution.
Someone in California is going to have to sue that State and take this all the way at to the U.S. Supreme Court.
If I were a platform, I'd move out of california and make the platform unavailable in california. But before I made that decision, I'd try to avoid fines by either using an algorithm to go thru the entire website and tag those posts as potentially problematic and make them unavailable to california based IP addresses, so if you're in california, you can still see twitter, but none of those potentially problematic posts, it just doesn't show them at all.
It's kind of like the platform would geofence a shadowban to CA.
I'm not sure how VPNs work in this context, but I'm going to ask proton VPN to add a feature to their VPNs to allow users to list which VPN servers NOT to connect to and exclude all vpn servers in california. Being on the east coast, this is a remote possibilty, but still, as states act more muscular on censorship, it's time to up our technological options.
Isn’t it within our right to be hateful???????? If I want to post about how I hate my parents, I should be allowed without government hand slapping. WTF
HOLY CR*P 🚨 The day Charlie Kirk was killed and everyone was focused on that, Gavin Newsom and California Democrats rammed through an online censorship bill
PENALTIES
“SB 771, passing the Assembly on September 10th, 10 days ago. Then on September 16th, passing the Senate completely under our noses, which means right now, all that stands between complete statewide government censorship is Gavin Newsom's signature”
“I exaggerating about how bad this bill is? No, I am not. Here is the actual bill. You can pull this up yourself on the state's website.
The Bill's called SB 771. It's called Personal Rights Liability, Social Media Platforms.
In Section 2, Title 23 of the Bill, it defines the penalties for breaking this new California law
That is the definition of the state controlling speech, folks.
— What type of speech is California trying to police here? Well, let's read from the Bill. It says, "This bill protects against online harassment, particularly when directed at historically marginalized groups."
“the State of California's actively passing UK style laws that will fine you for saying the wrong thing. Pretty wild. And this bill is completely done, folks. It's passed in the House, it's passed in the Senate. All that's left is Gavin Newsom signing it into law”
This is all 100% true, he even clipped screenshots from the bill and put it into the video as proof
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1970507754734497812
It's not a personal penalty, it's a platform penalty. It's the platform that would get the penalties under this law. Still bullshit, but not how the poster seems to be claiming it will be. Individual posters would not be fined under this law.
What that will result in, though, is California being able to censor free speech via fiat, nationally, on any platform that bends the knee, which we know FB and MS and others are going to do immediately, and X, Truth, and Gab are not.
Yes. Regardless, individuals will not face fines.
It's still censors online speech because now the social media platforms will be banning everything they "think" California will fine them for, regardless of whether it originated in California or somewhere else. Forcing the corps(es) to ban it or face punishment is just a slick, sleazy politician's way of banning something and still be able to hide behind the U.S. Constitution.
Someone in California is going to have to sue that State and take this all the way at to the U.S. Supreme Court.
DeSantis is not going to let NEWSCUM to get away with it, at least Florida will not.
Agreed. But it's worth noting nonetheless.
If I were a platform, I'd move out of california and make the platform unavailable in california. But before I made that decision, I'd try to avoid fines by either using an algorithm to go thru the entire website and tag those posts as potentially problematic and make them unavailable to california based IP addresses, so if you're in california, you can still see twitter, but none of those potentially problematic posts, it just doesn't show them at all.
It's kind of like the platform would geofence a shadowban to CA.
I'm not sure how VPNs work in this context, but I'm going to ask proton VPN to add a feature to their VPNs to allow users to list which VPN servers NOT to connect to and exclude all vpn servers in california. Being on the east coast, this is a remote possibilty, but still, as states act more muscular on censorship, it's time to up our technological options.
NEWSCUM needs to be sued, that’s all, he is censoring free speech in all United States practically
Isn’t it within our right to be hateful???????? If I want to post about how I hate my parents, I should be allowed without government hand slapping. WTF