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

[Gimmesometruth]

So "the press" in the first amendment is people? Like soylent green?

So the question, in context, wasn't whether "the press" can describe people.

LOL....you quote yourself asking if "press" refers to people, and then you deny that you were asking if the press refers to people!

Gawd....whats next? In the 18th century the 1A was written to protect....machines? "industry"?

You post nothing but absurdities.

 

[Gimmesometruth]

is that it is the freedom to use the press

And whom uses a printing press in the 18th century? Androids? Vegetables? Cats?

 

[Gimmesometruth]

So "the press" in the first amendment is people? Like soylent green?

"Freedom of the press" secured the right of the people to use the printing press

Wow, looky there, he got there....finally.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Just look up written erotica and the 1st...protected free speech.
Or you know Phelps clan and their signs.

But hey you are right!

I decline to do your research for you. I gave you my source, replete with citations. Now it's your turn to do work.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

LOL....you quote yourself asking if "press" refers to people, and then you deny that you were asking if the press refers to people!

The question, ultimately, was whether the press refers to a printing press or the (TRIGGER WARNING!) industry of journalism broadly, giving journalists special rights. This would not be a question of whether the press "can" refer to people. Instead that would be an assertion that the press is people.

Gawd....whats next? In the 18th century the 1A was written to protect....machines? "industry"?

No one has said or even suggested that.

And whom uses a printing press in the 18th century? Androids? Vegetables? Cats?

People, obviously.

Wow, looky there, he got there....finally.

It's nothing different from what I've said all along. Perhaps you should go back and read it again.

 

[Gimmesometruth]

The question, ultimately, was whether the press refers to a printing press or the (TRIGGER WARNING!) industry of journalism broadly,

Journalists are people, again, you just keep going in semantic circles, pointlessly.

giving journalists special rights.

No, they don't have rights above and beyond other people.

This would not be a question of whether the press "can" refer to people. Instead that would be an assertion that the press is people.

That is what is being asserted by me and others who have been responding to your semantic funtime.

No one has said or even suggested that.

Then what is this exercise all about?

People, obviously.

There you are.

It's nothing different from what I've said all along. Perhaps you should go back and read it again.

Weird, someone states from the beginning of this multi-day pointlessness that the press is people....but for some reason you keep objecting to that premise.....while coming to the conclusion that the press...is....people.

I'm glad you have resolved whatever question YOU had in this matter.

 

[Plasmaball]

I decline to do your research for you. I gave you my source, replete with citations. Now it's your turn to do work.

No.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Journalists are people,

Of course they are people. What did you think I was saying? They are frogs? Sidewalks?

again, you just keep going in semantic circles, pointlessly.

Nah. I'm responding to the original claim that I was wrong in stating that the first amendment's freedom of speech protection is for the spoken word and its freedom of the press protection is for the written word.

No, they don't have rights above and beyond other people.

Of course not. Which is further evidence the press that is protected in the first amendment is not journalism as an industry or profession, but the act of publishing written material.

That is what is being asserted by me and others who have been responding to your semantic funtime.

Then you're not participating in the same argument. The argument is whether freedom of the press is a protection for journalists specifically or the written word generally.

If you're having a different argument, then take it to someone who wants to have it.

Then what is this exercise all about?

Whether freedom of the press is a protection for journalists specifically or the written word generally.

There you are.

Yes, here I am. Saying the same thing I've been saying since we began.

Weird, someone states from the beginning of this multi-day pointlessness that the press is people....

In the first amendment, "the press" is a reference to the printing press. Obviously people use it. One would have to be a complete moron to think anyone was suggesting otherwise. People also use speech. That doesn't mean speech is people. Speech is spoken. The press is written. That's the point I've been making.

 

[madman]

The only thing that's gonna die here is this bill:

DeSantis, House Speaker Renner oppose Brodeur’s blogger bill

State Sen. Jason Brodeur’s controversial blogger registration bill appears to be dead after both Gov. Ron DeSantis and state House Speaker Paul Renner voiced their opposition to it. “I …

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woooooF! that's was a close one.