In 2021, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature crafted a wide-ranging law that would allow the state to punish social media companies for removing posts or refusing to publish posts from certain media companies or political figures, even if those posts violated the company’s rules on hate speech, violent incitements, or disinformation. DeSantis used Twitter and Facebook’s bans ...
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Florida School Requires Permission Slips for Students to Watch Disney Movie
Parents were quite thoroughly fed up with their children’s high school when the institution required permission slips for a Disney movie. In Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s Florida, it seems that schools now mandate permission slips for teenagers to watch even the most socially acceptable, safe movies: Disney classics. Related: Frustrated Audiences Believe Even Artificial Intelligence Has “More Soul” Than Disney ...
Read More »Disney Asks to Delay DeSantis Lawsuit Again
It seems this saga is never going to end! Disney reportedly requested a second court delay for the DeSantis lawsuit. The legal battle between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Walt Disney Company has been stretching on for years now. From a back and forth about the “Don’t Say Gay” law (which Disney claimed was government retaliation), AKA the Parental ...
Read More »Disney IN, DeSantis OUT: Reedy Creek District Might Make a Comeback Soon!
It appears Disney is slowly making its way back on top in the Sunshine State with a recent ruling in favor of disbanding the CFTOD and bringing back the original Reedy Creek Improvement District. The battle between the Walt Disney Company and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has died down, but in the quiet, it appears Disney might be coming out ...
Read More »This New Florida Law Is a Must Know for Disney World Guests
UPDATE: An earlier version of this erroneously listed CS/SB 76: State Park Campsite Reservations as a law that would affect the Disney Campgrounds as well; however, since these are private campgrounds, the law will not affect them. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed some new laws into existence beginning January 1, 2024, that will affect Disney World guests. While going ...
Read More »Done with DeSantis! Lawmaker Proposes to Terminate Florida Governor’s Disney Dreams
It’s been only a few months of having DeSantis’s hand-picked board at the helm of the Central Florida Tourism District, and some are already over and done with them—so much so that one Florida lawmaker is soon going to formally propose to bring Disney back and put an end to DeSantis’s Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board. The battle that ...
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