USCA11 Case: 21-12355
21-12355
Date Filed: 05/23/2022
Opinion of the Court
Page: 13 of 67
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User-Data Requirement
• Data access: A social-media platform must allow a deplatformed user to “access or retrieve all of the user’s information, content, material, and data for at least 60 days” after
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the user receives notice of deplatforming.
§ 501.2041(2)(i).
Enforcement of § 106.072—which contains the candidatedeplatforming provision—falls to the Florida Elections Commission, which is empowered to impose fines of up to $250,000 per day
for violations involving candidates for statewide office and $25,000
per day for those involving candidates for other offices. Id.
§ 106.072(3). Section 501.2041—which contains S.B. 7072’s remaining provisions—may be enforced either by state governmental actors or through civil suits filed by private parties. Id. § 501.2041(5),
(6). Private actions under this section can yield up to $100,000 in
statutory damages per claim, actual damages, punitive damages,
equitable relief, and, in some instances, attorneys’ fees. Id.
§ 501.2041(6).
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The plaintiffs here—NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association (together, “NetChoice”)—are
trade associations that represent internet and social-media companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google (which owns YouTube), and
TikTok. They sued the Florida officials charged with enforcing
S.B. 7072 under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In particular, they sought to
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