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New Florida Senate Bill 1316 Would Require Bloggers Who Write Anything About Florida Gov. Officials To Register w/ State
“Bloggers who don’t would be fined $25/article for each day it’s late. The bill would not apply to newspapers or similar publications.”@GovRonDeSantis pic.twitter.com/D3Rj4phB5j
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) March 3, 2023
What even is this?
A Republican Florida state senator has proposed a bill that would require paid bloggers who cover Gov. Ron DeSantis, his cabinet or lawmakers to register with the state or face steep fines.
State Sen. Jason Brodeur’s Senate Bill 1316 would also force bloggers to disclose who is paying them to write about Florida’s elected officials and how much they are pulling in.
Jason Brodeur
The bill defines “elected state officer” as “the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, a Cabinet officer, or any member of the Legislature.”
It defines a blog as “a website or webpage that hosts any blogger and is frequently updated with opinion, commentary or business content.”
The proposed legislation would not apply to newspapers’ websites and other similar publications.
“Paid bloggers are lobbyists who write instead of talk,” Brodeur told the news outlet Florida Politics, which first reported on his legislation. “They both are professional electioneers. If lobbyists have to register and report, why shouldn’t paid bloggers?”
Under Brodeur’s bill, bloggers will have to register with the Florida Office of Legislative Services or the Commission on Ethics within five days of publishing a paid post, and then file monthly reports on who paid them and the amount of compensation.
Bloggers who fail to submit the monthly reports on time would be fined $25 per day — with the amount being capped at $2,500 per posting — to be paid within 30 days.
This is probably a joke, I guess?
It’s so funny that mainstream media is exempt, because they only ever help DeSantis. The “negative” reporting on DeSantis has been the biggest boon to his career and his presidential campaign. The media acted like he was the one doing the most extreme anti-gay laws, the most extreme anti-vax laws. In fact, there are more than a dozen governors who are better than him on these issues. But conservatives see the media attacking him and think he must be good.
Honestly, I don’t even know what bloggers we’re talking about here, but I seriously doubt the bill would only target paid lobbyist-style bloggers.
Here’s my documentation needed to write about DeSantis, Moody, Brodeur, or any other elected official. I’m not filing any “registration” or reporting my salary to Tallahassee. Go step on all the Legos with this unconstitutional nonsense. https://t.co/nAOCFY9faK pic.twitter.com/ja3HHmaNLj
— Sarah Rumpf (@rumpfshaker) March 2, 2023
There is no quote from DeSantis about this yet, apparently. You’d think he’d want to quickly distance himself, but it’s at the top of the Post, and he’s not doing that.
Maybe he really will try to get this through?
It seems like it has to be a joke.
