On Wednesday, a federal judge appointed by former President Bill Clinton issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Florida law championed by GOP governor Ron DeSantis that would prohibit “a social media platform from willfully deplatforming a candidate.” DeSantis signed the bill in late May, remarking:
When the founding fathers established our country and crafted the Constitution, they were very concerned with threats to liberty primarily emanating from government power, and they believed concentrations of power would inevitably lead to people’s liberties being curtailed. So they designed a constitution that had separation of powers, checks and balances, and it was designed to create a government that could do the things that you needed a government to do, but did it in a way that was as safe as possible and had as many different checks along the way and balances so that you didn’t have an accumulation of power in one part of the government. And I think that they were very smart about that and, obviously, we’ve seen other societies that have not had those protections, the results have inevitably been disastrous.
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