When The Right Is So Terribly Wrong #264 By Hank Silverberg We are all in danger. It sounds less threatening than other pieces of legislation being floated in Congress and state legislature's right now, but this one is 100% dangerous. A bill (SB-1316) has been introduced in Florida (where else?) that would require all bloggers who cover the Governor, his administration or the state legislature, to register with the state. And it would require them to reveal if they are being paid to write the blog and who is paying them to write it. To anyone who has ever passed a fifth-grade civics class, this is a clear violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but apparently Republican State Representative Jason Brodeur who proposed it, and Republican Governor Ron DeSantis who supports it, aren't smarter than a fifth grader. The First Amendment could not be clearer in spirit or in actua...