Much ridiculed, a Florida state legislator introduced a bill requiring bloggers — bloggers who make money off of this blogging — to register with the state if they cover the governor or the governor’s employees and bureaucrats. It is but one jackass who did this, and not the governor, which in one way puts the bill on the level of the random “give 16 and 17 year olds half a vote” legislations that sometimes slide into the corner of the news. On the other hand, this is seemingly on the behest of a governor trying to sharpen cultural matters for a presidential run, so I grasp the idea — “Is he copying Hungary’s Orban?” headline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am reminded of an explanation on how the Russian Duma works under the current Putin regime. Someone works to outdo someone else in legislation by introducing, say, the “Ban the Goths and Emo Act”, so as to give a fiery speech about how George Soros is working to destroy the Russian youth by dumping the Western subcultures of a goth and emo. Shuffling about the frightening Russian government \/ Russian Orthodox Church production Children Versus Wizards<\/a>, I grasp a basic message. From there, not much happens, because they just fulfill a role of forwarding Putin’s last barn burner speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The bill spotters around, dead on arrival. But I guess it might have pleased DeSantis, and follows comments on strengthening libel acts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Much ridiculed, a Florida state legislator introduced a bill requiring bloggers — bloggers who make money off of this blogging — to register with the state if they cover the governor or the governor’s employees and bureaucrats. It is but one jackass who did this, and not the governor, which in one way puts the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52590,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52588\/revisions\/52590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}