No, Florida Can’t Regulate Online Speech Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at an event in 2018. (Gage Skidmore, https://flic.kr/p/2cqMi9Z; CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has promised that Florida will soon enact “the most ambitious reforms yet proposed” for “holding ‘Big Tech’ accountable.” The bill would force large “social media platforms”—entities that enable users to access “a computer server, including an Internet platform and/or a social media site”—to apply their content moderation standards in a “consistent manner,” to change those standards no more than once a month, and to let users turn off algorithmic promotion or post sorting. It would also block websites from moderating content posted by politicians during an election. “We’re going to take aim at those companies,” DeSantis says, “and pull back the veil and make sure these guys don’t continue to find loopholes and gray areas to live above the law.”