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

[Suzanimal]

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

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida Sen. Jason Brodeur (R-Lake Mary) wants bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, and other members of the Florida executive cabinet or legislature to register with the state or face fines.

Brodeur’s proposal, Senate Bill 1316: Information Dissemination, would require any blogger writing about government officials to register with the Florida Office of Legislative Services or the Commission on Ethics.

In the bill, Brodeur wrote that those who write “an article, a story, or a series of stories,” about “the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, a Cabinet officer, or any member of the Legislature,” and receives or will receive payment for doing so, must register with state offices within five days after the publication of an article that mentions an elected state official.

If another blog post is added to a blog, the blogger would then be required to submit monthly reports on the 10th of each month with the appropriate state office. They would not have to submit a report on months when no content is published.

For blog posts that “concern an elected member of the legislature” or “an officer of the executive branch,” monthly reports must disclose the amount of compensation received for the coverage, rounded to the nearest $10 value.

If compensation is paid for a series of posts or for a specific amount of time, the blogger would be required to disclose the total amount to be received, upon publication of the first post in said series or timeframe.

Additional compensation must be disclosed later on.

Failure to file these disclosures or register with state officials, if the bill passes, would lead to daily fines for the bloggers, with a maximum amount per report, not per writer, of $2,500. The per-day fine is $25 per report for each day it’s late.

The bill also requires that bloggers file notices of failure to file a timely report the same way that lobbyists file their disclosures and reports on assessed fines. Fines must be paid within 30 days of payment notice, unless an appeal is filed with the appropriate office. Fine payments must be deposited into the Legislative Lobbyist Registration Trust Fund if it concerns an elected member of the legislature.

For writing about members of the executive branch, fines would be made payable to the Executive Branch Lobby Registration Trust Fund or, if it concerns both groups, the fine may be paid to both related trust funds in equal amounts.

Explicitly, the blogger rule would not apply to newspapers or similar publications, under Brodeur’s proposed legislation.

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https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/...te-about-governor-to-register-with-the-state/

 

[cjm]

"blogger" in the act is defined as a person.

 

[GlennwaldSnowdenAssanged]

Censorship?

 

[CCTelander]

Freedumb?

 

[oyarde]

Legislative Lobbyist Registration Trust Fund, WTF ?

 

[69360]

Lots of stupid crap gets proposed here in Florida. Doesn't mean it would pass. DeSantis is smart enough to know this would get too much negative press.

 

[Matt Collins]

This is my State Senator and he is a RINO puke. Fortunately the local GOP is fairly conservative and pushing back against him for this shenanigan.

 

[devil21]

It's a strawman bill. It would never pass in a million years but it sure gave DeSantis yet another media attention megaphone to publicly condemn it and look oh-so-conservative-and-electable. Remember, the media ignores candidates that aren't part of the club, not gives them gobs of free publicity for every little thing. Half of politician's jobs is to create issues out of whole cloth just to give the masses stuff to fight over and create media publicity for themselves, along with generating campaign cash from pissed off, low info voters, who don't understand how this works.

Y'all still haven't figured out how these hand-picked people like DeSantis are engineered into high office yet? Create issue out of nothing, media runs with manufactured issue, people get angry, politician condemns it, shills inundate comment sections with praise for politician, people clap and praise politician for vanquishing the manufactured threat.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” - Mencken

 

[69360]

It's a strawman bill. It would never pass in a million years but it sure gave DeSantis yet another media attention megaphone to publicly condemn it and look oh-so-conservative-and-electable. Remember, the media ignores candidates that aren't part of the club, not gives them gobs of free publicity for every little thing. Half of politician's jobs is to create issues out of whole cloth just to give the masses stuff to fight over and create media publicity for themselves, along with generating campaign cash from pissed off, low info voters, who don't understand how this works.

Y'all still haven't figured out how these hand-picked people like DeSantis are engineered into high office yet? Create issue out of nothing, media runs with manufactured issue, people get angry, politician condemns it, shills inundate comment sections with praise for politician, people clap and praise politician for vanquishing the manufactured threat.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” - Mencken

So? Even if DeSantis is proven to be the choice of some mystical cabal that secretly rules the world, I agree with almost all his policy decisions. So my peon self would still vote for him for president.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

This is my State Senator and he is a RINO puke. Fortunately the local GOP is fairly conservative and pushing back against him for this shenanigan.

Is somebody going to primary this clown next time around?

 

[Anti Globalist]

So? Even if DeSantis is proven to be the choice of some mystical cabal that secretly rules the world, I agree with almost all his policy decisions. So my peon self would still vote for him for president.

Pretty sure mystical is not a word to describe the cabal at this point.

 

[Matt Collins]

DeSantis is opposed to this piece of crap bill:

https://www.businessinsider.com/desantis-doesnt-support-florida-blogger-law-2023-3

 

[devil21]

So? Even if DeSantis is proven to be the choice of some mystical cabal that secretly rules the world, I agree with almost all his policy decisions. So my peon self would still vote for him for president.

Sold to you!

And it's not a very mystical cabal, unless you think intel agencies like CIA, NSA, Mossad and MI6 (the real 'deep state'...who was the audience for DJT's first speech the day after being sworn in? CNN will tell you it was Congress, but it was not) and their think tanks (Tavistock Institute) are "mystical" and of debatable existence and do not control major media. Gee, if only there was a way to gauge what the American masses want to hear and then formulate scripts that fulfill the desires, then use that same tool to spread the scripts, while in reality nothing of substance actually changes and the agenda continues on? Wouldn't that be something? It's a good thing that it hasn't been invented yet, right!

(I guess most still don't understand that this country is not run by Americans or for Americans.)