I
wish the title was a joke but it isn't. Sen. Jason Brodeur's, of
Florida, introduced bill SB 1316, titled "Information Dissemination,"
would also require bloggers to disclose who's paying them for their
posts about certain elected officials and how much.
So
in other words... If I as a blogger posts to a blog about an elected
state officer and receives, or will receive, compensation ( I'm assuming
that means cash) for that post, I must register with the appropriate
office within five days of the post.
What if
somebody gave me a sandwich with that count as compensation? If I
received a car with that count is compensation? The proposed bill states
that bloggers' disclosure to the state "must include" the "individual
or entity that compensated the blogger for the blog post, and the amount
of compensation received from the individual or entity. So again I
assume this means only cash money.
They're loose definition of a blog or weblog as a
"a
website or webpage that hosts any blogger and is frequently updated
with opinion, commentary, or business content". It seems that a well
papers news site is exempt from this rule. It also doesn't make clear if
that includes bloggers who don't reside in the state. I mean I don't
get "compensation" for writing anything on here, but still that propose
law makes no sense. It just looks like another misguided attempt to
intimidate people that disagree with policies that the state is
proposing on a regular basis.
I mean in
reality I can't see how any proposed law like that could stand up to any
type of supreme Court challenge. I never heard of registering
journalists. People who write cannot be forced to register. Or can they?
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