Saturday, May 27, 2023

DeSantis, the Faker

Ron DeSantis is not the first politician to make promises on which he did not deliver.  In this case, DeSantis made promises and then made damn sure he would not deliver.  It's just another day ending in -y for a Harvard law grad/politician.

...Early in 2021, DeSantis rolled out a bill he proclaimed would address the issue of tech censorship. Announced with grandeur, he boldly pledged to deliver everything conservatives were yearning for. The bill promised users the right to sue platforms that censored them, allowed them to opt out of shadow-banning algorithms, and block Silicon Valley’s prejudiced treatment of conservative candidates. With the fanfare of a televised address, DeSantis pledged to resolve these matters, eliciting cheers and applause from conservatives far and wide. Surely this governor, the embodiment of effectiveness, would triumph where Trump had fumbled....

Whoopeee!!  Yippee Ti-Yi-O!!  Someone is finally slam-banging social media!!

Or not.

... Alas, the hopes of conservative voters were once again left in the dust. The draft bill, once published, clearly signaled to anyone acquainted with these affairs that it was a dead duck. To the untrained eye, it seemed to honor all of DeSantis’ promises, but it was laced with legally nebulous language and glaringly ignored existing American legal precedents, assuring its inevitable downfall in the courts....

A graduate of Harvard Law is supposed to know that, ain'a?

Yes.  Yes, he does, and yes he did.

Suckers!

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