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BlueWaveNeverEnd

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Wed Mar 1, 2023, 07:15 AM Mar 2023

DeSantis Promises Florida Will Control Disney Content [View all]

While the board handles infrastructure and maintenance, DeSantis boasted that it could use its leverage to force Disney to stop “trying to inject woke ideology” on children.

“When you lose your way, you’ve got to have people that are going to tell you the truth,” DeSantis proclaimed. “So we hope they can get back on. But I think all of these board members very much would like to see the type of entertainment that all families can appreciate.”

It is worth pausing a moment to grasp the full breadth of what is going on here. First, DeSantis established the principle that he can and will use the power of the state to punish private firms that exercise their First Amendment right to criticize his positions. Now he is promising to continue exerting state power to pressure the firm to produce content that comports with his own ideological agenda.Whether he is successful remains to be seen. But a few things ought to be clear. First, DeSantis’s treatment of Disney is not a one-off but a centerpiece of his legacy in Florida. He has repeatedly invoked the episode in his speeches, and his allies have held it up as evidence of his strength and dominance. The Murdoch media empire, which is functionally an arm of the DeSantis campaign, highlighted the Disney conquest in a New York Post front page and a Fox & Friends segment.

Second, DeSantis’s authoritarian methods have met with vanishingly little resistance within his party. The only detectable Republican pushback has come from New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu, who warned, “Look, Ron’s a very good governor. But I’m just trying to remind folks what we are at our core. And if we’re trying to beat the Democrats at being big-government authoritarians, remember what’s going to happen. Eventually, they’ll have power … and then they’ll start penalizing conservative businesses and conservative nonprofits and conservative ideas.” (Of course, this warning holds only if Republicans believe they will have to relinquish power. If DeSantis can truly follow the example of Viktor Orbán, losing power becomes only a theoretical risk.)

And third, DeSantis has been very explicit about his belief that he sees his methods in Florida as a blueprint for a national agenda. So there is every reason to believe that, if elected president, DeSantis would use government power to force both public and private institutions to toe his line. Speaking out against him, or even producing content he disapproves of, would become a financially risky proposition.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/desantis-promises-florida-will-control-disney-content/ar-AA182O72

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And I promise not to go back to Florida or Disney world as Meadowoak Mar 2023 #1
Yup. This will be our last trip until FL changes it's diaper. woodsprite Mar 2023 #19
Same here MustLoveBeagles Mar 2023 #60
As a Floridian, was hesitant to urge DUers to boycott my home state. However, power and $$ are the allegorical oracle Mar 2023 #67
I have no choice sabbat hunter Mar 2023 #68
That's . . . . that's . . . . COMMUNISM!!!!! no_hypocrisy Mar 2023 #2
When the government controls the mode of production. TheBlackAdder Mar 2023 #13
Ron Mc'White Boots says what? Botany Mar 2023 #3
Booty McBootface. TheBlackAdder Mar 2023 #16
" Booty McBootface" Love it I'm stealing it. Botany Mar 2023 #18
Hitler Complex is Right B.See Mar 2023 #22
We can start fighting him right now calling him "Booty McBootface" 24/7 Botany Mar 2023 #26
Thanks. B.See Mar 2023 #29
Actually... keroro gunsou Mar 2023 #31
As long as the appellation "Booty McBootface" is used. "Booty McBootface" will leave a mark on ... Botany Mar 2023 #33
Yeah, coz... hippywife Mar 2023 #52
Hmmm...who wore it better? Xavier Breath Mar 2023 #37
The Disney family have very little control from what I read on the internet..... Lovie777 Mar 2023 #4
He won't even know when Disney destroys him malaise Mar 2023 #5
Exactly. A governor who'll make himself the cautionary tale of unconstitutional Orbanism. ancianita Mar 2023 #46
Only in his head can he control what Disney produces in movies FloridaBlues Mar 2023 #6
Just like in Russia, where Putin controls the oligarchs and their businesses. Irish_Dem Mar 2023 #7
Yep, it sure looks like it. TheBlackAdder Mar 2023 #15
Florida is becoming a Russian colony. Irish_Dem Mar 2023 #30
More like Orban of Hungary. ancianita Mar 2023 #47
He is multigraincracker Mar 2023 #8
😂 Walleye Mar 2023 #10
Now there's a bumper sticker EYESORE 9001 Mar 2023 #12
I didn't say she was crazy. I said she was fucking Goofy. Probatim Mar 2023 #39
Disney is way too BIG to be told what to do... ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2023 #9
Disney Studios will be 100 years old this year cagefreesoylentgreen Mar 2023 #65
He would never succeed if he were governor of a cold state with miserable weather Walleye Mar 2023 #11
I'm waiting for the lawsuit against DeSatan by Disney. House of Roberts Mar 2023 #14
Think that through again FBaggins Mar 2023 #17
Passing a law that affects all corporations in a state is different from a law only affecting one. House of Roberts Mar 2023 #20
All that occured is their local government changed hands FBaggins Mar 2023 #24
This bill will not affect operations of the parks at Walt Disney World or Disney content LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2023 #21
Sabatini's post is nonsense FBaggins Mar 2023 #27
You are WRONG LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2023 #57
Sorry... that's just as nonsensical FBaggins Mar 2023 #59
Little Hitler also wants a one party state... figures B.See Mar 2023 #23
I'm done visiting Florida! Earth-shine Mar 2023 #25
Isn't this against republican values of regulating business? Emile Mar 2023 #28
Allow me to coin the term "Equal Blood" The Grand Illuminist Mar 2023 #32
Only ONE thing that will stop this BULLSHIT! (almost impossible though) bluestarone Mar 2023 #34
The propaganda is the problem! Initech Mar 2023 #50
EVERY word above is 100% on the money! bluestarone Mar 2023 #51
Sununu GenThePerservering Mar 2023 #35
Yup. But he's only mostly full of organic manure. Mopar151 Mar 2023 #43
So...fascism? Hong Kong Cavalier Mar 2023 #36
DESANTISM HAB911 Mar 2023 #38
He can try to defend his contract controls, but it boils down to Disney's 1A rights of content. ancianita Mar 2023 #49
If Desantis succeeds ... AncientOfDays Mar 2023 #40
Weird, remember when GOPers were all about the hand of the free market deciding Wingus Dingus Mar 2023 #41
They were never about the 'free market' Quanto Magnus Mar 2023 #53
Nothing like telling a multi-national company you can control content because of the toe they have i haele Mar 2023 #42
This fight is just nuts. PlutosHeart Mar 2023 #44
Hilarious that I keep seeing this suggestion with "just" FBaggins Mar 2023 #54
There's no way Disney COULD pull out of Florida jmowreader Mar 2023 #55
It's not just Desantis. It's Fox News. Initech Mar 2023 #66
Desantis can seriously go shove this "anti-woke" agenda up his ass. Initech Mar 2023 #45
Oh, god... sakabatou Mar 2023 #48
Because DeathSantis apparently now controls the Disney land and controls the Disney World board, Zilli Mar 2023 #56
he definitely has lost his mind. his win of the governship by a large % had gone to his head BlueWaveNeverEnd Mar 2023 #61
What did Disney actually lose from its Florida battle with DeSantis? LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2023 #58
BTW - Fuck Disney for their silence. maxrandb Mar 2023 #62
Good point. Disney owns ABC News and a lot o' media. Kid Berwyn Mar 2023 #63
It's exactly like all the people in 2016 that saw what was coming maxrandb Mar 2023 #64
Precisely. Kid Berwyn Mar 2023 #69
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