is freespeech for all or only for those we agree mailing de santis now
@11112011 is anyone banning speech, or is it about what's on the curriculum?
@skells i dont know also what exactly was it about and i mean exactly,not just what conservative news say
@thatguyoverthere @skells What that means for Disney and for Florida taxpayers is not entirely clear. Republican sponsors were unable to give detailed answers to questions about financial and legal implications of the legislation during floor discussions
@11112011 @skells 🤷 what exists today has been a controversial topic for a while. I've read about the district long before it got into the recent news cycle. As I understand the arrangement it seems rather fascist really since a private business is granted governing authority over part of the state (I think even including collecting taxes).
Here is an article from 2017 touching on the special rights Disney has been granted. I don't know paste magazine but finding anything on a specific topic that is a little older when the news cycle is dominated by the topic is difficult using modern search engines.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/walt-disney/walt-the-quasi-nazi-the-fascist-history-of-disney/
> Disney wouldn’t usurp power in a state, he would create his own private entity using the labor of the workers—writing his own laws and enforcing them with his proto-police security force, making EPCOT a microcosmic society in America with sovereignty unchallenged by the local or federal governments.
> As Benito Mussolini himself once said: “Fascism should be more appropriately called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
> Even today this legacy lives on. To make it all possible, the Disney Corporation lobbied for the creation of the Reedy Creek Improvement District in the 1960s, which gave the company broad authority over what we know as the area surrounding Disney World. Since then, the corporation has maintained near total control of the land and does with it what it sees fit. Namely, building new attractions and making superfluous amounts of cash.
> The result of Disney lobbying was the city known as Lake Buena Vista, Florida with a population of around 40 citizens who are all employed by the Disney parks that serve 30,000,000 visitors a year. The employees live there, are un-unionized, face strict standards and requirements, are paid low wages, and face eviction if they were to leave their job.
At the end of the day I'm sure my understanding is limited and incorrect in some ways, but as I understand it this whole thing has seemed sketch from day one way back in the 60s.
Here is an article from 2017 touching on the special rights Disney has been granted. I don't know paste magazine but finding anything on a specific topic that is a little older when the news cycle is dominated by the topic is difficult using modern search engines.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/walt-disney/walt-the-quasi-nazi-the-fascist-history-of-disney/
> Disney wouldn’t usurp power in a state, he would create his own private entity using the labor of the workers—writing his own laws and enforcing them with his proto-police security force, making EPCOT a microcosmic society in America with sovereignty unchallenged by the local or federal governments.
> As Benito Mussolini himself once said: “Fascism should be more appropriately called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
> Even today this legacy lives on. To make it all possible, the Disney Corporation lobbied for the creation of the Reedy Creek Improvement District in the 1960s, which gave the company broad authority over what we know as the area surrounding Disney World. Since then, the corporation has maintained near total control of the land and does with it what it sees fit. Namely, building new attractions and making superfluous amounts of cash.
> The result of Disney lobbying was the city known as Lake Buena Vista, Florida with a population of around 40 citizens who are all employed by the Disney parks that serve 30,000,000 visitors a year. The employees live there, are un-unionized, face strict standards and requirements, are paid low wages, and face eviction if they were to leave their job.
At the end of the day I'm sure my understanding is limited and incorrect in some ways, but as I understand it this whole thing has seemed sketch from day one way back in the 60s.
