Except that Florida is in no way banning Facebook. That wasn't what any of this is about but exaggerate then divert is a typical tactic for political discussions.

Disney was using its questionable tax breaks afforded them by the state of Florida to criticize, exaggerate, and out-right lie about things the government of Florida was doing. You can't bite the hand that feeds (or in this case houses) you. I'm not sure how Disney won this battle at all: they attempted to circumvent the state's dissolving their tax breaks and the state won.

And, out of genuine curiosity, are you from Belarus? I guess I thought you picked it randomly but you've stuck with it so it makes me think you have some sort of connection.

In regards to people leaving the state: rest assured, the people of those states will help them pack and drive them to the state line. We don't care if you don't like our state and quite frankly would just rather you leave if that's how you feel. The same goes for all those celebrities that threatened to leave the US if Trump (or Biden) were elected. See you later...don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!

It isn't about like or dislike. It is about laws. And if you are going to produce something that can be consumed in other countries you are bound by those laws.

There is some truth to your example that they can just ban your product. But your example of Belarus is silly. Belarus has 9.2 million people with an average median household income of $4,600 vs the 22.6 million people in Florida with a median household income of $57,700. So, yes, you can tell Belarus to go jump in the lake as there isn't much advertising revenue coming from there; however, Florida is a different story and dropping them becomes a more difficult pill to swallow, especially for investors and boards that have a say in how you conduct business.

It is obvious you have never actually had any conversations with people from the right and the only exposure you have to the right are the Leftwing news sites.

Please open your mind and talk to people to get to know them. You are as much a part of the problem as the "Republicans" you're throwing shade at.

WHAT?!? Wait...no...that can't be...

Didn't you know you aren't allowed to inject actual logic into these fear-mongering comments?

Be careful...the /. moderators are gonna get you!

By this logic, any age restriction law is state designed morality. So, that follows that my 9-year-old should be able to jump in the car, drive themselves to the liquor store and buy a bottle of Boone's Farm the tootle over to the gun store and...you get my point.

This is not what is being discussed here. Good job, though, trying to reframe the issue. Governments EVERYWHERE institute laws that limit what citizens can and cannot do. The state of Florida isn't telling you how to raise your children. It is simply instituting age restrictions. Would you be one of those parents that believes an 8-year-old should be allowed to drink alcohol or look at porn with their parent's permission? This is nothing new or unusual.

Your hubris at thinking you supervise their every moment on social media is amazing! Children, since the beginning of time, have been circumventing their parents rules and supervision.

Two things here:
1. There are many competent parents out there that need help because their children are exposed to things (at say 10, 11, or 12 years old) that they are NOT prepared to handle nor understand. When we were young, our sphere of influence was the kids at school, on the playground, etc. Now-a-days, those children are exposed to millions of people of all ages. For any parent to think their preadolescent child is mentally or emotionally prepared to handle those kinds of things is asinine.

2. There are more incompetent parents in the world than there are competent ones. Hence the reason we have age restriction laws for things like alcohol, drugs (where legal), tobacco, guns, porn, driving. Or, are you one of those parents that believes an 8-year-old should be able to jump in the car and drive themselves to the gun store to buy a gun?

Translation: You didn't ask for this, ergo nobody else wants it?

But that is the reality of the world we live in. If what you create can be consumed in other places then the laws of those places apply. It is your responsibility to ensure that you are complying with those laws. Period.

In which case, now the parents are breaking the law by allowing their children to do something the state deemed illegal

Municipalities pass laws all the time that apply to people within their borders. That is, by their very nature, why they exist.

Um...No. The last few years we've been doing different things that have decreased the value of the dollar. For example, dishing out money to people for no reason what-so-ever or sending people home and telling them they don't have to work or attempting to wipe dept away for people that haven't done anything with the overpriced degree they received.

Wow!

Your contempt for the Right has completely clouded your ability to actually see facts. But that's OK. Both sides certainly have folks like you that vote blindly with little understanding of what they are doing. Folks with little understanding of the system of government we live in in this country.

You are correct: the right is outnumbered. All the cities combined that tend to vote blue outnumber the rest of the population; however, none of those people in those cities would be able to live if it weren't for the hard working people in the red areas.

I don't know where you live so I won't presume to speak as to whether you understand how to take care of yourself without someone else providing every bit of food you consume.

There are as many zealots on the Left as the Right. And you're fooling yourself if you think these communist ideas will be effective.

My point was in reference to your second point and to point out the hypocrisy of just saying the Right engages in questionable practices to take/remain in power.

To address your first point, yes, I agree that everybody should face the same, and by same I mean proportional tax burden. I would even go so far as to point out that everybody has access to the same loopholes that the higher income people use to lower their tax burden. But to imply that those very rich people are only on the right is disingenuous and does a disservice to you and distracts from your point. For example, George Soros, for example, is one of the richest people in the world and he is probably as far to the Left as anyone.

The Left is currently using the same tactics as the Right to enrage their respective constituencies. They both spout "mis"information. The Right yells the election was stolen and the Left says they're all crazy. Then when it appears Biden won't win the Left tries to imply that he would be stealing the election. The Left yells Republicans want to destroy democracy and the do everything they can to stop the presumptive Republican candidate from even being allowed to run.

It never ceases to amaze me how the "Rules for thee but not for me" is so prevalent in today's politics.

Just like the Left preys upon under-educated, subsidy dependent, and illegal immigrant voters using money and other incentives to maintain their stranglehold on our government thereby increasing the tax burden on hard-working Americans.

It never ceases to amaze me that the Left seems to forget they are just as selfish and self-serving as the Right. Leftist gaslighting at its finest.

It seems pretty simple. Employers will be forced to pay more for less. They will then pass that more for less on to the consumers. So, the consumers will end up paying more for less.

Not if the business failed because of some law passed that forced higher costs upon the business.

Agreed; however, neither is it the business's fault.

The end result will be one of two likely things. Businesses will be forced to hire more people to support staggering shifts like what was stated earlier thus resulting in paying those same employees less money. OR The prices of things will skyrocket. Businesses will not accept the hit to the bottom line anymore than you would be happy with the price of something going up just because politicians wanted to tax you.

That this post got scored as insightful with this inflammatory and idiotic statement just proves that Slashdot moderators are NOT moderators but, in fact, just Leftist Propogandists.

I wonder just how negative they can moderate this post?

Quite a few people that were way smarter and more highly educated any of us very specifically knew the presidential vote would be a popularity contest. So they set up a process to install a leader that involved us but not directly. The president was never meant to be elected. Neither were the senators. We, as normal citizens were only ever meant to have two people representing us in the federal government.

So what would be your solution? Have the 12 biggest cities in the union elect the president?

I have no idea where you live but the reality is you have--very likely--no idea what it is like to live where I live. And when people that have no clue what it is like to live where I live start passing laws that suit their environment but make mine difficult to survive I start getting upset--as I'm sure you do too. This is why the states were given more power from the constitution and the federal government was mostly given restrictions.