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thewayneIf you are a compensated blogger, you would have to register with the state within five days of your first post or face a possible $25/day fine. This applies more to paid bloggers with active posting and following and excludes news web sites.
The law also requires political bloggers writing about Florida to file monthly reports reporting their income from blogging.
Talk about gross First Amendment overreach! Now, this is just a bill filed in the legislature, a proposal. It may never see consideration, or it may sweep through. But the thing that gets me is the Republicans keep calling Democrats snow flakes and such, here they are the ones being incredibly thin-skinned.
Time for me to create a Ron DeSantis tag and post more about him!
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/florida-bill-would-make-bloggers-who-write-about-governor-register-with-state/
https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/03/03/1732240/florida-bill-would-make-bloggers-who-write-about-governor-register-with-state
The law also requires political bloggers writing about Florida to file monthly reports reporting their income from blogging.
Talk about gross First Amendment overreach! Now, this is just a bill filed in the legislature, a proposal. It may never see consideration, or it may sweep through. But the thing that gets me is the Republicans keep calling Democrats snow flakes and such, here they are the ones being incredibly thin-skinned.
Time for me to create a Ron DeSantis tag and post more about him!
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/florida-bill-would-make-bloggers-who-write-about-governor-register-with-state/
https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/03/03/1732240/florida-bill-would-make-bloggers-who-write-about-governor-register-with-state
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Date: 2023-03-04 11:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-03-06 10:36 pm (UTC)It most likely wouldn't survive a court challenge as an outrageous infringement of free speech.
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Date: 2023-03-07 01:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-03-07 07:10 pm (UTC)I read an interesting article today where an observer noted that this is tantamount to requiring a license to report the news, which is an excellent way of quantifying why it's such a gross violation of the First Amendment.
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Date: 2023-03-08 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-03-09 09:22 pm (UTC)The problem is that he's smarter than Trump. Whether he's doing it just for power's sake, like Trump, or he actually has a more insidious agenda, we don't know.
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Date: 2023-03-10 12:12 am (UTC)