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Exhibit 1126

Florida Senate Bill 7072 (2021), Chapter 2021-32, Laws of Florida

Exhibit 1126 ยท State statute

Florida Senate Bill 7072 (2021), Chapter 2021-32, Laws of Florida

A social media platform may not willfully deplatform a candidate for office who is known by the social media platform to be a candidate, beginning on the date of qualification and ending on the date of the election or the date the candidate ceases to be a candidate.

Creates section 106.072, Florida Statutes, barring a social media platform from willfully deplatforming a candidate for office, with fines, and section 501.2041 on notice, consistency and appeal duties for platforms above stated size thresholds (annual gross revenue over $100 million or more than 100 million monthly active users, as the Supreme Court describes them in Moody).

Source
Florida Legislature
Date
24 May 2021 (approved by the Governor; effective 1 July 2021)
Quoted from
s. 106.072(2), as created by Ch. 2021-32, section 1
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2021-032.pdf
Accessed
2026-11-10
Cited by
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Finding INF-4.8
Primary record Texas and Florida enacted laws in 2021 limiting platforms' removal decisions. In Moody v. NetChoice (1 July 2024) the Supreme Court vacated both judgments on facial-challenge grounds and wrote that a state may not interfere with private actors' speech to advance its own vision of ideological balance.