Unenforceable.
WTH?!
Transparency....
This message was paid for by.. Bla bla bla..
It will just get laundered like any old campaign finance bs...
So and so hires so and so in the name of the other so an so.
If anyone thinks this will really happen... You’re smoking crack with hunter.
Sounds like something a democrat would try to do.
Yeah, except for that pesky first amendment this might even pass muster.
If a blogger is being paid by a political entity, he’s no longer just a citizen opining. He’s a political operative, and people should know that.
Slippery slope? yes. Would dems do the same if they could? ABSOLUTELY!
So says NBC. Let see it from a reliable source.
GFYS!
Free Political Speech.... gee maybe we should have that instead....
Ridiculous!
If true that is unconstitutional.
1st Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Few people know that press reporters have constitutional protections, while bloggers and others do not. If a person belongs to a professional "press", <-- legal term there, organization, they do not have to disclose sources, they get automatic free-passes to events and areas others are kept out of, and are constitutionally protected. They rely on the "or of the press" clause of the 1st Amendment.
Amateurs are not protected in any way. They rely on the free speech clause of the 1st amendment. They are not the "press".
What this law says is that if a person is a professional, and is paid and under hire, they must disclose that they are not amateurs but members of the "press", <-- again, legal term there.
Most trolls are paid propagandists. Very few effective online personalities are just individuals with political views. They work for and are paid by opposition candidates and people with big money for products like covid drugs and other products.
In effect, this law registers who is and who is not in the press. It delineates the amateurs from the press. This is a massive shift in law in that while the liberals want to register everyone's 2nd Amendment rights by registering guns, this creates a registration of the press, a 1st Amendment registration.
It also exposes the dark money, the illegal money used by opposition candidates to skirt the money limit laws in campaigns. That money pays people to advertise directly for candidates and by also throwing mud on opposition candidates. We often hear of millions spent on a campaign and wonder where the money goes. With the advent of the Internet, the money is going to paid social media propagandists; not TV advertisements, not radio, not print. It goes to the pockets of people in the press and to social media managers not in the press. This law creates a disclosure law, and it demands everyone fess up to who is paying them.
Big money has bought all of our politicians. Every last politician is bought out; State, local, and federal. Now, they are spending their remaining money, lots of it, on paying people on the web to pretend to be individual contributors. They gaslight every topic, and they use twisted logic very effectively because people cannot discern fact from fiction anymore. They do not know how to ask for sources of record, and many of those sources are now compromised too.
This law says that if you are being paid to say something, then you are not the press but an advertiser, and the people should know who is paid to say things and who are really members of the press.
Slippery slope, those registrations of rights.