Florida Lawmakers Move to Include Disney Under Tech Limits (1)

April 20, 2022, 9:30 AM UTCUpdated: April 20, 2022, 5:50 PM UTC

Florida’s governor may be able to impose swift retribution against Walt Disney Co. for publicly disagreeing with the state’s “don’t say gay” education law.

Republican Ron DeSantis, who’s running for a second term as governor, asked lawmakers to remove a Disney exemption they wrote into a social media law last year. A Florida House vote is all that’s needed to give the governor what he wants, after the Florida Senate on Wednesday passed the legislation sought by DeSantis (S.B. 6C).

The social media law (S.B. 7072) permits fines of $250,000 a day when candidates for statewide ...

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