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Speech is freer in California than in Florida
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Jeffrey VanRensselaer
Nov 28, 2023, 12:45:22 PM11/28/23
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By Noah Bierman
Staff Writer
Nov. 28, 2023 3 AM PT
WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is due to debate California Gov.
Gavin Newsom later this week about whose state offers a better model for the
country, is leading an “assault on free expression in Florida” that is “almost
without peer in recent U.S. history,” a watchdog warned in a pair of reports
released Tuesday.
Pen America, which defends the rights of authors and others around the world to
write and speak out without fear of government reprisals, has written detailed
reviews comparing the two states’ recent policies and proposals on campus speech
codes, book bans, curriculum fights, diversity and inclusion, internet freedom
and other 1st Amendment issues in the interstate feud between DeSantis, a
Republican, and Newsom, a Democrat.
The two men, whose states wield outsized influence on the right and left, are
set to debate on Fox News Thursday night. DeSantis is hoping the debate
jump-starts his flailing presidential campaign while Newsom has been trying to
maintain his national stature amid speculation he will run in 2028.
The Pen report finds fault with both states’ policies but reserves its harshest
judgment for DeSantis, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination
as a culture warrior on the slogan that Florida is the state “where woke goes to
die.” The states’ policies have implications beyond their borders; most of the
bills the report analyzed have been adopted in other states, and California is
home to tech and entertainment industries with global reach.
“Florida is setting an agenda of unprecedented censorship, rigging the system to
favor the speech of those in power and silencing dissenting voices,” the Pen
report states.
Authors, journalists and others who care about free expression have to pay
attention to both states, in part because of their governors’ ambitions and
willingness to push barriers at a time when states are leading most of the big
culture war fights, said Suzanne Nossel, Pen America’s chief executive, in an
interview.
“If you want to see where free speech is headed in this country, you have to
take a close look at what they’re doing,” she said.
The report details several bills that have been proposed or passed in the
Florida Legislature in recent years, most of which were supported by DeSantis.
They include the well-known bill that critics label “Don’t Say Gay,” which
limits discussion of sexual orientation in classrooms, rules limiting the
discussion of race in public colleges and universities, bills making it easier
to ban books based on parental objections and those targeting mass protests with
enhanced criminal penalties and drag shows.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-11-28/free-speech-california-florida-newsom-desantis-debate
Desantis is implementing state-enforced censorship of speech. This is not in
rational dispute.
Staff Writer
Nov. 28, 2023 3 AM PT
WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is due to debate California Gov.
Gavin Newsom later this week about whose state offers a better model for the
country, is leading an “assault on free expression in Florida” that is “almost
without peer in recent U.S. history,” a watchdog warned in a pair of reports
released Tuesday.
Pen America, which defends the rights of authors and others around the world to
write and speak out without fear of government reprisals, has written detailed
reviews comparing the two states’ recent policies and proposals on campus speech
codes, book bans, curriculum fights, diversity and inclusion, internet freedom
and other 1st Amendment issues in the interstate feud between DeSantis, a
Republican, and Newsom, a Democrat.
The two men, whose states wield outsized influence on the right and left, are
set to debate on Fox News Thursday night. DeSantis is hoping the debate
jump-starts his flailing presidential campaign while Newsom has been trying to
maintain his national stature amid speculation he will run in 2028.
The Pen report finds fault with both states’ policies but reserves its harshest
judgment for DeSantis, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination
as a culture warrior on the slogan that Florida is the state “where woke goes to
die.” The states’ policies have implications beyond their borders; most of the
bills the report analyzed have been adopted in other states, and California is
home to tech and entertainment industries with global reach.
“Florida is setting an agenda of unprecedented censorship, rigging the system to
favor the speech of those in power and silencing dissenting voices,” the Pen
report states.
Authors, journalists and others who care about free expression have to pay
attention to both states, in part because of their governors’ ambitions and
willingness to push barriers at a time when states are leading most of the big
culture war fights, said Suzanne Nossel, Pen America’s chief executive, in an
interview.
“If you want to see where free speech is headed in this country, you have to
take a close look at what they’re doing,” she said.
The report details several bills that have been proposed or passed in the
Florida Legislature in recent years, most of which were supported by DeSantis.
They include the well-known bill that critics label “Don’t Say Gay,” which
limits discussion of sexual orientation in classrooms, rules limiting the
discussion of race in public colleges and universities, bills making it easier
to ban books based on parental objections and those targeting mass protests with
enhanced criminal penalties and drag shows.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-11-28/free-speech-california-florida-newsom-desantis-debate
Desantis is implementing state-enforced censorship of speech. This is not in
rational dispute.
Klaus Schadenfreude
Nov 28, 2023, 12:50:41 PM11/28/23
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[Default] Jeffrey VanRensselaer <jeffy...@gardner.shitbags.con>
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>https://www.latimes.com/
Lie site not read.
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>https://www.latimes.com/
Lie site not read.
Anonymous
Nov 28, 2023, 9:33:44 PM11/28/23
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If you doubt this, just ask Andrew Anglin.
cult list
Dec 18, 2023, 8:21:39 PM12/18/23
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On 28 Nov 2023, Anonymous <an...@anon.net> posted some
news:uk67u4$3s9bh$1...@news.mixmin.net:
> If you doubt this, just ask Andrew Anglin.
IF the USA killed a bunch of progressives, free speech would be in vogue
again.
news:uk67u4$3s9bh$1...@news.mixmin.net:
> If you doubt this, just ask Andrew Anglin.
again.
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