{"id":399304,"date":"2021-05-25T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=399304"},"modified":"2021-05-26T15:20:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T19:20:41","slug":"limbaugh-institute-educated-desantis-signs-landmark-big-tech-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/05\/25\/limbaugh-institute-educated-desantis-signs-landmark-big-tech-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Limbaugh Institute-Educated DeSantis Signs Landmark Big Tech Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"

JASON: Governor DeSantis is showing the way. Kim Reynolds of Iowa is showing the way. There are a number of governors that will provide us with a solution out of this chaos, this chaos of kowtowing to China, of absolute open borders, of no law and order where our major cities are out of control, and the most serious of all, perhaps, is the absolute demand for societal conformity when it comes to what you think. Remember, free speech is nothing more than an expression, a manifestation of your thoughts.<\/p>\n

\"\"So, when they censor you, when the media censors you, when they take you out of context, which is what they do, when they misrepresent your statements or your ideas and place you in a false light, which they did to me in every campaign, they did to Trump, they do to most Republicans, above and beyond a form of defamation, it is an assault on freedom of thought. And if you don\u2019t have the freedom to think, the views you have, to hold the views you have, you\u2019re not free, and it\u2019s the end of the republic, the end of the American experiment. And sad to say there is a considerable constituency out there for just that.<\/p>\n

They place their power above your freedom. They place equity above the rule of law. I\u2019m trying to do this diplomatically and say, well, you know, reasonable people can disagree. But you can\u2019t disagree — or you can\u2019t reason with people who are so disagreeable as to be tyrants. And, unfortunately, that\u2019s what the opposition has become, tyrannical. To show you how far it\u2019s gone, by the way — I\u2019m gonna tease you with this, and I\u2019ll tell you later, later in the hour who said this. But I want you to see if you can guess who said this. “I know very well that the idea of being ‘color blind\u2019 is out of fashion, that MLK\u2019s vision of character over skin color is considered to be naive. But that vision surely made our society better. I\u2019m not sure the modern vision of ‘race consciousness\u2019 is making things better” Who do you think said that? Well, stay tuned. It will definitely surprise you. Won\u2019t surprise me, but it\u2019ll surprise you.<\/p>\n

Now, when I talk about freedom of thought — and I say the states must solve this now — you\u2019ve got governors like Reynolds in Iowa and DeSantis in Florida and a few others, right, that are taking on censorship. Governor Ron DeSantis signed finally, finally, a free speech bill holding Big Tech accountable. First governor to do it. First of its kind in the United States. Basically a state-run Section 230 repeal that allows individuals to sue Big Tech for unfair and deceptive trade practices.<\/p>\n

And now this is where it can really, really get interesting. Whether it\u2019s Big Media or Big Tech, they are violating consumer trade laws or consumerism laws, if you will. They are basically saying they\u2019re something they\u2019re not. It\u2019s consumer fraud. Big Tech — or Big Media — says they report the truth. They don\u2019t. They lie, routinely. Big Tech says they\u2019re a neutral platform. No, they censor routinely. That is an unfair and deceptive trade practice. That is consumer fraud. That\u2019s where the angle is, whether it\u2019s Florida or Minnesota.<\/p>\n

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