According to News Channel 8 in Florida, “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.”
In short, RepubliKKKlans want to kill the First Amendment, and they’ll succeed because this is what Floridians voted for; this is what a stupid, dying country looks like. Clearly, this is unconstitutional to any layman as it obviously creates an undue burden on expressing free speech, and there is no possible state interest in monitoring and regulating what bloggers, of all people, write. One would think that is the case. But with this SCOTUS, I have no doubt they will side with the snowflake RepubliKKKlans of Florida who don’t want anything bad written about them. Of course, we are a long, long way from a case being brought before the High Court — the bill hasn’t even been passed into law yet. But just wait. It will. There is no bill that DeSanti wants to become law that the supine legislature has not passed. Nonetheless, the intentions and direction of Florida’s dictatorship continue to come into sharper focus. One can easily make direct parallels to Nazi Germany. But whatever! This is what people voted for. This is a consequence of the landslide victory voters bestowed upon the Florida autocrat because they love it. And this is the same guy that wants to export his dictatorship to the rest of America. Americans don’t care. Mark my words! As goes Florida, so goes America. Welcome to stupid America, where people have given up on democracy because it’s hard to think and pay attention.