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What is an old-fashioned way?

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Re: Life in Tennessee [ironclm] [ In reply to ]
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What!

How is that throat punch going for you?

or the blatant advocating of the killing of folks that politically disagree with you??

/r

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You have a grandson, right? Make certain you tell him the truth.

“Grandpa, you were in the army. Did you ever fight Nazis?”

“Well, I cried about a mean woman named Cathy.”

“Was she a Nazi, Grandpa?”

“Oh, no. Cathy hated Nazis.”

“Why did you cry about her?”

“Because when the Nazis made their sign and Cathy pointed it out, I realized I have no balls. It was easier to cry than stand up to Nazis.”
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Re: Life in Tennessee [Barks&Purrs] [ In reply to ]
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I'll not insult you on how specious your last post was

you can do better counselor

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Re: Life in Tennessee [ironclm] [ In reply to ]
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Governor Bill Lee: Nazi superhero fighting dangerous trannies and gays to make TN safer for our wonderful white race !

What a wonderful guy!


More seriously: hey politicians, if your biggest fans are Nazis, maybe take a moment to reconsider your policies? (Hint: like the policies that the Nazis like best, and the ones they hang congratulatory banners about ... )

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Re: Life in Tennessee [Steve Hawley] [ In reply to ]
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I'll not insult you on how specious your last post was

you can do better counselor

/r

There are words to describe people in this situation:

Bully
Victim
Bystander
Upstander

We all make decisions about who we are.

Cathy was an upstander when she posted about the Nazis and their sign.

You chose to attack Cathy, the upstander, instead of the bully. That puts you closer to the bully.

I was an upstander when I pointed out the HUGE difference between between the Nazi message and Cathy’s message. Then I bullied your pussy ass because you deserve it and I hate Nazis.

So— do you want to insult me? Go for it.
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did these guys make it into the boat you wanted to float into the middle of the ocean and sink?

or do you just intend to kill them in an old fashioned way?

aside from throat punching---do you have a fav way of dispatching those you disagree with?

/r

It is always interesting to see what causes you to attack people.

I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.
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Re: Life in Tennessee [ironclm] [ In reply to ]
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This was today. We won’t even go into the state representative who wants to bring back lynching.


Sherrell is quite a piece of work. He issued the usual "apology" through a spokesperson claiming it was a lapse of judgment. He also has introduced a bill to rename a street in Nashville

Tennessee Lawmaker Paul Sherrell Suggests ‘Hanging on a Tree’ as Execution Method (thedailybeast.com)

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Sherrell is already one of two sponsors of a bill to rename part of a Nashville street after Donald Trump that is currently named after the late civil rights icon and longtime U.S Rep. John Lewis in 2021. Lewis attended American Baptist College and Fisk University in Nashville. He was a leader of the 1960 sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in downtown Nashville. The four months of non-violent protests led to Nashville becoming the first city to admit Blacks to previously segregated public places.

Trump’s only significant connection with Nashville was a 30-minute speech he delivered at the Municipal Auditorium in May 2017, followed by a visit to The Hermitage, the plantation where President Andrew Jackson once kept 200 slaves. Jackson says in his letters that he lynched two Native American chiefs. Trump laid a wreath on Jackson’s tomb on what would have been Old Hickory’s 250th birthday.

“We will make America great again!” Trump declared.

Many GOP politicians care more about performative stunts designed to rally the base than actual legislation that will help them.
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Nutella wrote:

Many GOP politicians care more about performative stunts designed to rally the base than actual legislation that will help them.


Sorry to go off-state, but now I see Florida Senate bill require bloggers who write about elected state officers, to (quoting exact text), "...register with the Office of Legislative Services or the Commission on Ethics, as applicable, within a specified timeframe; requiring such bloggers to file monthly reports with the appropriate office by a certain date..."


Pushing into straight, unapologetic fascism to fire up the base? Or is someone butthurt about what a blogger wrote? Is the draft of that bill at least blushing over 1A concerns? Why not just rename the "Office of Legislative Services," to the "Ministry of Truth" (Minitrue) for complete effect.
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j p o wrote:
Steve Hawley wrote:
did these guys make it into the boat you wanted to float into the middle of the ocean and sink?

or do you just intend to kill them in an old fashioned way?

aside from throat punching---do you have a fav way of dispatching those you disagree with?

/r

It is always interesting to see what causes you to attack people.

Women with opinions methinks.

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Re: Life in Tennessee [CaptainCanada] [ In reply to ]
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CaptainCanada wrote:
j p o wrote:
Steve Hawley wrote:
did these guys make it into the boat you wanted to float into the middle of the ocean and sink?

or do you just intend to kill them in an old fashioned way?

aside from throat punching---do you have a fav way of dispatching those you disagree with?

/r

It is always interesting to see what causes you to attack people.

Women with opinions methinks.

I was going to say whiskey.

Long Chile was a silly place.
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Re: Life in Tennessee [trail] [ In reply to ]
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This is a content-based restriction on speech— because it restricts speech about government officials. So the analysis of it is the content-based, 1st A analysis.

The law requires anyone who receives compensation for opinions, but not someone associated with a newspaper, who expresses an opinion to register with the government.

It is very broad and vague — it applies to a “blog” which means a website or webpage that hosts opinion, commentary, or business content. That’s basically everything on the internet, including Slowtwitch, Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress, private businesses, yelp, etc.

Weirdly, the laws says the term does not include the website of a newspaper or other similar publication. I didn’t see “newspaper or similar publication” defined in the linked proposed language.

The bill defines a “blog post” is an individual webpage on a blog which contains an article, a story, or a series of stories. That sounds a lot like a newspaper or similar publication. Most bloggers comment on current events, so they combine news with opinion. That’s how we introduce topics here typically— would we qualify as a “newspaper or similar publication” here at Slowtwitch because there is news reported?

“Compensation” includes anything of value provided to a blogger in exchange for a blog post or series of blog posts. If not provided in currency, it must be the fair-market value of the item or service exchanged.

The definition of compensation is very vague— I feel compensated in goodwill, emotional support, entertainment, etc by my blogging here. Would I need to estimate the fair market value? It’s priceless!

“If a blogger posts to a blog about an elected state officer and receives, or will receive, compensation for that post, the blogger must register with the appropriate office, as identified in paragraph (1)(f), within 5 days after the first post by the blogger which mentions an elected state officer.”

So— talking about an elected official is OFF-LIMITS, unless the blogger files monthly reports, as described in great detail—

Upon registering with the appropriate office, a blogger must file monthly reports…
The reports must include all of the following:
1. The individual or entity that compensated the blogger for the blog post.
2. The amount of compensation received from the individual or entity, regardless of how the compensation was structured.
a. The amount must be rounded to the nearest $10 increment.
b. If the compensation is for a series of blog posts or for a defined period of time, the blogger must disclose the total amount to be received upon the first blog post being published.
Thereafter, the blogger must disclose the date or dates additional compensation is received, if any, for the series of blog posts.
3. The date the blog post was published. If the blog post is part of a series, the date each blog post is published must be included in the applicable report.
4. The website and website address where the blog post can be found.
(4) Notwithstanding any other law, a magistrate is
authorized to enter a final order in determination of the reasonableness of circumstances for an untimely filing of a required report and the amount of a fine, if any.
(5) Each house of the Legislature and the Commission on Ethics shall adopt by rule, for application to bloggers, the same procedure by which lobbyists are notified of the failure to timely file a report and the amount of the assessed fines. The
rule must also provide for, but need not be limited to, the following provisions:
(a) A fine of $25 per day per report for each day late, not to exceed $2,500 per report.
(b) Upon receipt of an untimely filed report, the amount of the fine …

Bottom line: this law is yet another piece of GOP excrement.
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Re: Life in Tennessee [BCtriguy1] [ In reply to ]
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BCtriguy1 wrote:
CaptainCanada wrote:
j p o wrote:
Steve Hawley wrote:
did these guys make it into the boat you wanted to float into the middle of the ocean and sink?

or do you just intend to kill them in an old fashioned way?

aside from throat punching---do you have a fav way of dispatching those you disagree with?

/r


It is always interesting to see what causes you to attack people.


Women with opinions methinks.


I was going to say whiskey.

FTW !

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Re: Life in Tennessee [BCtriguy1] [ In reply to ]
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BCtriguy1 wrote:
CaptainCanada wrote:
j p o wrote:
Steve Hawley wrote:
did these guys make it into the boat you wanted to float into the middle of the ocean and sink?

or do you just intend to kill them in an old fashioned way?

aside from throat punching---do you have a fav way of dispatching those you disagree with?

/r


It is always interesting to see what causes you to attack people.


Women with opinions methinks.


I was going to say whiskey.


You are likely correct. In my experience whiskey definitely has opinions!

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Re: Life in Tennessee [DarkSpeedWorks] [ In reply to ]
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DarkSpeedWorks wrote:
BCtriguy1 wrote:
CaptainCanada wrote:
j p o wrote:
Steve Hawley wrote:
did these guys make it into the boat you wanted to float into the middle of the ocean and sink?

or do you just intend to kill them in an old fashioned way?

aside from throat punching---do you have a fav way of dispatching those you disagree with?

/r


It is always interesting to see what causes you to attack people.


Women with opinions methinks.


I was going to say whiskey.

FTW !

I'm being serious. Steve has come down on men, myself included, in similar fashion. So I don't think it's about women. He does seem to drink and post, though.

Also, it is my understanding that Steve had a long and distinguished military career where he fought and killed people in the name of your constitution. Part of that means defending assholes and their ability to voice their low IQ opinions. I *think* that is what Steve is attempting to do. He usually lashes out against a mob like reaction to people shitting on things conservative/GQP, whether that reaction is justified or not.

On a somewhat related note, I wonder if he is upset about conflating statements like in the picture with actual Nazis. As I mentioned elsewhere, half of my family is Polish and I have Jewish heritage on that side. I'm a bit sensitive to the subject. It does bug me when people compare idiocy in modern times (tiki torches anybody?) to actual Nazis who were responsible for the unthinkable atrocities of the late 30s-mid 40s. What we are seeing now is not remotely comparable to what happened then. Is it a precursor? Are we feeling the same rumblings now that occured in Germany in the lead up to WW2? I'm not sure. I don't personally think so. But it seems ridiculous to compare the ramblings of a few morons with social media accounts to an organized political movement which swept an entire country and culminated in the systemic murder of millions. I don't foresee Jewish ghettos and gas chambers in our future.

Long Chile was a silly place.
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Re: Life in Tennessee [Barks&Purrs] [ In reply to ]
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Bottom line: this law is yet another piece of GOP excrement.


Yeah, it seems to be trolling that tries to equate "bloggers" with lobbyists. Lobbyists have to register. And lobbyists get paid and "monetized bloggers" get paid. Therefore they're the same!

But of course it's an asinine comparison. Lobbyists interact directly with elected officials and their staffers to seek a particular policy outcome. By definition. Bloggers don't do that. They just write stuff. A blogger who does is a lobbyist who also blogs.

So I'd bet it's "gotcha trolling," e.g. the Sen. Brodeur who sponsored it is opposed to the regulations on lobbyists, so is setting up a perceived "hypocrisy trap" for those who complain about the bill.
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What we are seeing now is not remotely comparable to what happened then. Is it a precursor?


It's arguably comparable to the precursor. The Nazis were viewed as a clown sideshow that could just be safely laughed at and ignored for more than a decade. They were destroyed in election after election. They had a clownish shitshow of a coup attempt with zero probability of success (sound familiar?) that resulted in the jailing of many of them, including Hitler. That was the end of it! Until it wasn't.

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I don't foresee Jewish ghettos and gas chambers in our future.


I don't either, but maybe that's because we push back on such ideas due to recognition of history? When was the right time for the Germans to push back hard on Nazi ideology between ~1918 and ~1932?
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Re: Life in Tennessee [Barks&Purrs] [ In reply to ]
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This is a content-based restriction on speech— because it restricts speech about government officials. So the analysis of it is the content-based, 1st A analysis.

The law requires anyone who receives compensation for opinions, but not someone associated with a newspaper, who expresses an opinion to register with the government.

It is very broad and vague — it applies to a “blog” which means a website or webpage that hosts opinion, commentary, or business content. That’s basically everything on the internet, including Slowtwitch, Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress, private businesses, yelp, etc.

Weirdly, the laws says the term does not include the website of a newspaper or other similar publication. I didn’t see “newspaper or similar publication” defined in the linked proposed language.

The bill defines a “blog post” is an individual webpage on a blog which contains an article, a story, or a series of stories. That sounds a lot like a newspaper or similar publication. Most bloggers comment on current events, so they combine news with opinion. That’s how we introduce topics here typically— would we qualify as a “newspaper or similar publication” here at Slowtwitch because there is news reported?

“Compensation” includes anything of value provided to a blogger in exchange for a blog post or series of blog posts. If not provided in currency, it must be the fair-market value of the item or service exchanged.

The definition of compensation is very vague— I feel compensated in goodwill, emotional support, entertainment, etc by my blogging here. Would I need to estimate the fair market value? It’s priceless!

“If a blogger posts to a blog about an elected state officer and receives, or will receive, compensation for that post, the blogger must register with the appropriate office, as identified in paragraph (1)(f), within 5 days after the first post by the blogger which mentions an elected state officer.”

So— talking about an elected official is OFF-LIMITS, unless the blogger files monthly reports, as described in great detail—

Upon registering with the appropriate office, a blogger must file monthly reports…
The reports must include all of the following:
1. The individual or entity that compensated the blogger for the blog post.
2. The amount of compensation received from the individual or entity, regardless of how the compensation was structured.
a. The amount must be rounded to the nearest $10 increment.
b. If the compensation is for a series of blog posts or for a defined period of time, the blogger must disclose the total amount to be received upon the first blog post being published.
Thereafter, the blogger must disclose the date or dates additional compensation is received, if any, for the series of blog posts.
3. The date the blog post was published. If the blog post is part of a series, the date each blog post is published must be included in the applicable report.
4. The website and website address where the blog post can be found.
(4) Notwithstanding any other law, a magistrate is
authorized to enter a final order in determination of the reasonableness of circumstances for an untimely filing of a required report and the amount of a fine, if any.
(5) Each house of the Legislature and the Commission on Ethics shall adopt by rule, for application to bloggers, the same procedure by which lobbyists are notified of the failure to timely file a report and the amount of the assessed fines. The
rule must also provide for, but need not be limited to, the following provisions:
(a) A fine of $25 per day per report for each day late, not to exceed $2,500 per report.
(b) Upon receipt of an untimely filed report, the amount of the fine …

Bottom line: this law is yet another piece of GOP excrement.

I don't think it applies to everything on the internet since I (and the vast majority of folks) certainly don't get compensated for my (our) ramblings.
But what a shyte law. No way could this be enforceable. How would they enforce this on someone that lives in another state/country?
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I'm being serious. Steve has come down on men, myself included, in similar fashion. So I don't think it's about women. He does seem to drink and post, though.
Sure, I know that you were being serious, your comment was still accurate. And funny.


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As I mentioned elsewhere, half of my family is Polish and I have Jewish heritage on that side. I'm a bit sensitive to the subject. It does bug me when people compare idiocy in modern times (tiki torches anybody?) to actual Nazis who were responsible for the unthinkable atrocities of the late 30s-mid 40s.
I have no jewish heritage. But I am still concerned about a bunch of f*ckwad morons yelling, "JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US" while carrying tiki torches. It is not a good sign of what is coming.


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What we are seeing now is not remotely comparable to what happened then. Is it a precursor?
You betcha.


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Are we feeling the same rumblings now that occurred in Germany in the lead up to WW2? I'm not sure. I don't personally think so. But it seems ridiculous to compare the ramblings of a few morons with social media accounts to an organized political movement which swept an entire country and culminated in the systemic murder of millions. I don't foresee Jewish ghettos and gas chambers in our future.
Yes, but everything starts somewhere. And Mr Spielberg might beg to differ:
https://twitter.com/.../1631522287504457728


Since you have some jewish heritage, do find Rogan saying that "jews are into money like italians are into pizza" accurate, on-point, and totally cool?

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What we are seeing now is not remotely comparable to what happened then. Is it a precursor? Are we feeling the same rumblings now that occured in Germany in the lead up to WW2? I'm not sure. I don't personally think so. But it seems ridiculous to compare the ramblings of a few morons with social media accounts to an organized political movement which swept an entire country and culminated in the systemic murder of millions. I don't foresee Jewish ghettos and gas chambers in our future.

Maybe not the bolded part, but we are already seeing here the takeover of the state government (even moreso) due to gerrymandering the blue/purple cities. My own House of Rep. person is an example. He's the guy in Tyrod's post #59. Prior to the TN legislature drastically changing the districts, he would have never gotten elected in the urban core of Nashville. They are now moving on to things such as I posted, plus the governor trying to circumvent the public school districts and ramrod charter schools (that I'm sure he has a financial interest in) and women's health care, trans people, and anyone else they don't agree with.

https://www.theguardian.com/...congress-republicans

https://www.newschannel5.com/...conflict-of-interest

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Re: Life in Tennessee [trail] [ In reply to ]
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trail wrote:
Barks&Purrs wrote:

Bottom line: this law is yet another piece of GOP excrement.


Yeah, it seems to be trolling that tries to equate "bloggers" with lobbyists. Lobbyists have to register. And lobbyists get paid and "monetized bloggers" get paid. Therefore they're the same!

But of course it's an asinine comparison. Lobbyists interact directly with elected officials and their staffers to seek a particular policy outcome. By definition. Bloggers don't do that. They just write stuff. A blogger who does is a lobbyist who also blogs.

So I'd bet it's "gotcha trolling," e.g. the Sen. Brodeur who sponsored it is opposed to the regulations on lobbyists, so is setting up a perceived "hypocrisy trap" for those who complain about the bill.

Several thoughts:

1) I’m not going to give away free passes for legislative bullshit. Bullshit in the legislature costs money, time, health and happiness. I consider laws to be a very important subject because they directly impact how we live— trolling about a cartoon or an editor’s choice of words— that’s different.

2) I support laws that make sense. Do we need to regulate lobbying. Yes. Do we have laws that regulate lobbying? Yes. Can we improve them? Yes. Is this law an improvement— no. Not by a long shot.

We have laws that regulate the content of speech. We recognize that some speech cannot exist in our society. Does this law meet the conditions for regulating speech? No.

3) Our country is like a garden. It takes constant effort to weed out the nonsense. That’s normal and to be expected. Change is inevitable and change was written into the foundation of our country.

We need to recognize the truly noxious weeds from the the regular variety of plants growing in our garden. I do not recognize the right of noxious ideology in our democracy. Ideology that is anti-democratic does not belong in a democracy (democracy is a government where authority is shared among the people. When certain people are excluded from power— that is anti-democratic).

Nazi banners and hate speech is anti-democratic. Those ideologies are based upon excluding people. Those ideologies would be appropriate in a fascist country— that’s the right home for them. Not here.

If anyone wants to say that there is hypocrisy here, I would love to discuss it. It’s probably an important discussion to have.
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Our country is like a garden. It takes constant effort to weed out the nonsense.

Beautiful! One of my poetry assignments is to combine art and politics. You've given me inspiration.

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M~ wrote:
Barks&Purrs wrote:
This is a content-based restriction on speech— because it restricts speech about government officials. So the analysis of it is the content-based, 1st A analysis.

The law requires anyone who receives compensation for opinions, but not someone associated with a newspaper, who expresses an opinion to register with the government.

It is very broad and vague — it applies to a “blog” which means a website or webpage that hosts opinion, commentary, or business content. That’s basically everything on the internet, including Slowtwitch, Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress, private businesses, yelp, etc.

Weirdly, the laws says the term does not include the website of a newspaper or other similar publication. I didn’t see “newspaper or similar publication” defined in the linked proposed language.

The bill defines a “blog post” is an individual webpage on a blog which contains an article, a story, or a series of stories. That sounds a lot like a newspaper or similar publication. Most bloggers comment on current events, so they combine news with opinion. That’s how we introduce topics here typically— would we qualify as a “newspaper or similar publication” here at Slowtwitch because there is news reported?

“Compensation” includes anything of value provided to a blogger in exchange for a blog post or series of blog posts. If not provided in currency, it must be the fair-market value of the item or service exchanged.

The definition of compensation is very vague— I feel compensated in goodwill, emotional support, entertainment, etc by my blogging here. Would I need to estimate the fair market value? It’s priceless!

“If a blogger posts to a blog about an elected state officer and receives, or will receive, compensation for that post, the blogger must register with the appropriate office, as identified in paragraph (1)(f), within 5 days after the first post by the blogger which mentions an elected state officer.”

So— talking about an elected official is OFF-LIMITS, unless the blogger files monthly reports, as described in great detail—

Upon registering with the appropriate office, a blogger must file monthly reports…
The reports must include all of the following:
1. The individual or entity that compensated the blogger for the blog post.
2. The amount of compensation received from the individual or entity, regardless of how the compensation was structured.
a. The amount must be rounded to the nearest $10 increment.
b. If the compensation is for a series of blog posts or for a defined period of time, the blogger must disclose the total amount to be received upon the first blog post being published.
Thereafter, the blogger must disclose the date or dates additional compensation is received, if any, for the series of blog posts.
3. The date the blog post was published. If the blog post is part of a series, the date each blog post is published must be included in the applicable report.
4. The website and website address where the blog post can be found.
(4) Notwithstanding any other law, a magistrate is
authorized to enter a final order in determination of the reasonableness of circumstances for an untimely filing of a required report and the amount of a fine, if any.
(5) Each house of the Legislature and the Commission on Ethics shall adopt by rule, for application to bloggers, the same procedure by which lobbyists are notified of the failure to timely file a report and the amount of the assessed fines. The
rule must also provide for, but need not be limited to, the following provisions:
(a) A fine of $25 per day per report for each day late, not to exceed $2,500 per report.
(b) Upon receipt of an untimely filed report, the amount of the fine …

Bottom line: this law is yet another piece of GOP excrement.

I don't think it applies to everything on the internet since I (and the vast majority of folks) certainly don't get compensated for my (our) ramblings.
But what a shyte law. No way could this be enforceable. How would they enforce this on someone that lives in another state/country?

Stop thinking these things are unenforceable. They are clearly not fairly enforceable, but they are clearly able to be unfairly enforceable. Which is very different than unenforceable.

If it becomes law, it won’t be enforced against supporters of the governor, but will be wielded against people that don’t support the governor. Or at least be used to silence those against the governor, because they don’t want to risk having to pay with the legal fees and the stress do the charges. Even though this law would eventually be overturned by the courts, that is a long painful process (partly because right wing judges will purposefully drag it out) that people will self censor.
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I don't think it applies to everything on the internet since I (and the vast majority of folks) certainly don't get compensated for my (our) ramblings.
But what a shyte law. No way could this be enforceable. How would they enforce this on someone that lives in another state/country?


You may not think the law applies to everything on the internet, but the law says it applies to websites or webpages that host opinion, commentary, or business content. Facebook is a business that hosts webpages with opinions, commentary and business content. Twitter: same. Slowtwitch: same. Yelp: same. Google: same. My orthodontist: same. My kids’ school robotic club: same (we list our sponsors, which is arguably “business content.” If we mention a government official, I think the robotics club would need to register under this proposed scheme.)

It’s not clear exactly who this law would be enforced against— which is why 1st A content-specific laws need to be written in a certain way. Speech laws that aren’t clear lead to a chilling effect.

The recent NPR article about medical providers in Texas talking in code words about legal medical options is an example of the chilling effect. The medical providers don’t know what is safe to say. So they speak in code. That hurts patients— in order to make good decisions, we need to know things with certainty. How can we make investments of any kind in anything without certainty? A shithole country is one where laws are unclear— either in enforcement or they change too often.

With respect to how a law can be enforced in another state, that issue can be explored by googling the words “internet minimum contacts jurisdiction.”
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