How Ron DeSantis' Anti-'Woke' Crusade Would Cancel Fox News
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed the Florida legislature to join his crusade against “wokeness” in public schools, First Amendment experts warned that like many of the anti-“critical race theory” laws around the country, the bills were written so broadly that they could be reasonably interpreted as de facto prohibition on anything other than specifically state-sanctioned speech.
Even critics of “wokeness” have argued that prohibitions on “divisive concepts” and definitions of “truth” are subjective, vague, and destined to sweep up far more content than was originally intended.
And wouldn’t you know it, now that schools across Florida are removing innocuous books because they bump up against certain “divisive” interpretations of gender, sexuality, and racism that could conceivably run afoul of Florida law—DeSantis is crying, “Hoax!”
The governor and his gaggle of sycophantic right-wing media influencers insist the book bans were only meant to go after the “porn” in books like Gender Queer or the “racism” in books like How to Be an Antiracist—and that most of the hundreds of other books facing state censorship were mistakenly included in the purge, or deliberately removed by educators to make DeSantis look bad.
Team DeSantis wants to have it both ways. They deny book bans are even happening, but the erstwhile small government, free marketplace of ideas-supporting conservatives are also openly contemptuous of the free inquiry and open debate trappings of liberal democracy. Better to ban the “bad” ideas than debate them, defeat them, or teach them in a larger context. (But don’t call it a ban, which they contend in the face of all evidence is a “hoax.”)
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When that happens, we're truly fucked. It would be the point of no return in terms of going full Nazi. Desantis is fucking scary and if he's elected he would enact the true Fox News / Murdoch agenda. 
I've had people, even here, tell me that I am crazy for thinking that it could happen here. But it absolutely could. All the signs are there. Republicans are testing just how far they can enact their evil legislation. Florida is a test market with states like Texas and Oklahoma following suit.
Just give the right wing a willing Congress and president, SCOTUS will carry out the orders, and Fox News and the right wing echo chamber will cheerlead the carnage.