Bill being proposed in Florida will require bloggers to register with the government when writing about government officials

[Elim Garak]

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.
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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.

 

[Remote]

Banning books.
Making a list of names.
Trying to erase black history.

Florida is following the Nazi playbook and nobody seems to be taking it seriously.

 

[ORDER_66]

This is Literal Nazi shyt...

 

[Elim Garak]

Banning books.
Making a list of names.
Trying to erase black history.

Florida is following the Nazi playbook and nobody seems to be taking it seriously.

shyt is turning into a tlr colibrehs dream lol.

 

[Black]

Exactly why I left

 

[RARI_Godwind]

Fascism.

 

[Wild self]

FL is a hellhole and becoming the tropical Alabama for going against Trump and his followers.

 

[Paper Boi]

it's over for the blog boiz

 

[Paper Boi]

Banning books.
Making a list of names.
Trying to erase black history.

Florida is following the Nazi playbook and nobody seems to be taking it seriously.

ravioli ron on his mussolini shyt

 

[DonB90]

More Yankees and spics that moved down here, the more radically white supremacist this state has become. Ain't that bout a bytch

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Fascism.

Yeah.

 

[Ghost Utmost]

And people said I was nuts when Trump FIRST came down the escalator.

I was alarmed. I brought up Nazi similarities.

I actually skipped my conservative town and very decent job one day out the blue. And came home. To my childhood hood.

Hopefully y'all see. This shyt is not a joke. These snow roaches are ready to buck. They ready to hit the streets. They will legalize their vicious impulses and like you see here. Make it illegal to speak. And put your ass in jail or ruin you as a legal remedy for you speaking.

And DeSnow Roach wants to make America Florida. Literally. That's his campaign.

 

[ORDER_66]

More Yankees and spics that moved down here, the more radically white supremacist this state has become. Ain't that bout a bytch

It was always heading that way look who those florida voters keep voting in...

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Democrats need to be bring that Summer Jam screen to DeNastiness soon.

This is an easy for the FL or US S.C.

 

[Dave24]

@skyrunner1 do you still want to live in Florida?