[heinrich5991]

> "the DeSantis government of Florida has mandated social media platforms disclose statistics about LGBT content on their platforms"

> content moderation policies and statistics

Can you explain how the law would require them to provide statistics on LGBT content? From the article, it seems like they'd only need to provide statistics on moderating LGBT content, which seems… OK? Also they'd need to publish their stance on LGBT content, which would be "we don't police it".

[mpalmer]

Moderation of online speech is speech; they're still casing the bank vault.

[heinrich5991]

> they're still casing the bank vault.

I don't understand the meaning of this part.

> Moderation of online speech is speech

AFAICT, they're not being forced to moderate. They're being forced to say how they approach moderation. "Not at all" being a valid answer, as far as I understand it.

[mpalmer]

Forcing them to answer a question like that is compelled speech about constitutionally protected behavior. It doesn't matter how easy the question is to answer.

What is the government's interest in getting this question answered?

[dotnet00]

It's kind of like being asked by your employer to provide statistics on how often you insult a specific coworker behind their back.

They can promise all they want that the info won't be used against you, but it's obvious that they wouldn't be asking if they didn't intend to do anything with it. Thus it would limit how often you insult that person.