Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

I just got an email that my Live Journal blog is 22 years old now! Started it in 20022004 after my friends and I did a mass exodus from Network 54 when they went weird. Then in 2017 on the 13th of January, I started my Dreamwidth side and ported everything over when LJ was not only sold to a Russian company, but the servers were relocated to Russian territory. So I'll get my 10-year anniversary with DW in the middle of the forthcoming January. Yay. ;-)

And I'll continue manually cross-posting to my LJ blog as DW will remain my primary blog. I wish the automatic cross-post would start working again, but I expect that won't happen until Russia loses the war in Ukraine once and for all and withdraws and loosens up on the information flow chokehold that it maintains on its people.

If 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