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Florida bill would require bloggers who write about the governor and legislators to register with the state

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Florida bill would require bloggers who write about governor, legislators to register with the state

The bill proposed by Republican state Sen. Jason Brodeur would also require bloggers who write about state officials to disclose who is paying them and how much.
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Sen. Jason Brodeur's bill, titled "Information Dissemination," would also require bloggers to disclose who's paying them for their posts about certain elected officials and how much.

"If a blogger posts to a blog about an elected state officer and receives, or will receive, compensation for that post, the blogger must register" with the appropriate office within five days of the post, the legislation says.
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Failing to register would result in a fine of $25 a day, and the penalty would be capped at $2,500 per posting, NBC affiliate WFLA of Tampa reported.
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"It's hard to imagine a proposal that would be more violative of the First Amendment," Kuby said. "We don't register journalists. People who write cannot be forced to register."
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When is somebody going to pay me?

Oh, I guess you do already.
 
Nomad4Ever said:
www.nbcnews.com

Florida bill would require bloggers who write about governor, legislators to register with the state

The bill proposed by Republican state Sen. Jason Brodeur would also require bloggers who write about state officials to disclose who is paying them and how much.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com




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This is the future that righties want. The destruction of the free press. Emphasis on the word free, as in unencumbered.
 
Blatantly unconstitutional. The Florida legislature has a lot of Florida Mans who have nothing better to do than write bills to own the libs. Which I suppose is good, in a way. The more time they spend owning the libs, the less time they can dedicate to gutting the welfare state or banning abortion or other stuff that actually matters.
 
Nomad4Ever said:
www.nbcnews.com

Florida bill would require bloggers who write about governor, legislators to register with the state

The bill proposed by Republican state Sen. Jason Brodeur would also require bloggers who write about state officials to disclose who is paying them and how much.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com




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So. If it’s financially feasible, move to a border state like Georgia or Alabama, and continue your blog there.
 
It has truly begun in earnest, the MAGATS across the Nation are, in any State where they control the Legislatures and the Governorships, coming up with the most egregious mind numbingly dumb and autocratic bills to become laws that they can. Why? Because they are feeling super empowered after Roe was overturned by the Trump court. They have nothing to lose and so much evil MAGATCY to gain!
 
The thing about DeSantis, these Florida legislators, and their followers, is they don't recognize the fascism. To those of us with any sense of history or knowledge of political science it is utterly obvious, but they're so devoid of historical knowledge they believe Nazism is left-wing ideology. And by exerting their ideology, they think they can keep the populace as ignorant as them.
 
Ethel2 said:
This can’t be legal.
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It doesn't sound like this bill would stand against a legal challenge anyway, so it's likely not going anywhere. I do wonder what State Sen. Brodeur thinks about dark money to political campaigns since that's a far bigger threat to political transparency than bloggers.
 
I'm not sure It matters that this attempt will fail. Lots of politicking is trial ballooning and window moving.

Used to be unheard of that doctors would be forced to let women 'birth' abortable fetalterms. Now...
 
The reasoning by the sponsor seems to be that since lobbyists (paid talkers) are required to be registered in order to 'talk' why not those bloggers who are paid to 'write?'

Objections to the proposal are fair enough.
But rather than lazily call it 'fascism' why not explain why 'writing' has more 1st amendment protection than 'talking?'
 
Phys251 said:
This is the future that righties want. The destruction of the free press. Emphasis on the word free, as in unencumbered.
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In an Authoritarian regime the freedom of the press is 1st to go, the beginning of the end. DeSantis is already attacking education & choosing which people are Bad. If it were a novel, there would be a resistance.
 
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