Calling someone racist, homophobe, transphobe etc in Florida can land you in legal trouble

So, you can be as racist as you can imagine, or rave against gays, which I agree is covered under the 1st amendment, but if this law passes, it will be illegal to call a person out for it. More absurd from Florida. You can taunt people to no end and then sue them when they call you for what you are.

For some reason I cannot copy/paste from the article.

Calling someone racist, homophobe, transphobe etc in Florida can land you in legal trouble
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...n&cvid=5ce59d7b168c404785a0caeebfd6a2b2&ei=11

 

It is about making it easier to sue people for defamation. I am not sure this would be a law that benefits conservatives. Currently the only court cases I can think of involving defamation are against republicans. We will has to see how all this washes out if it gets pass. Name calling has never been a big thing for me regardless even if it is to call someone a racist or a homophobe.

TBH I am looking forward to making it illegal for journalist to use anonymous sources. I am not 100% certain where I stand on this yet because I can see arguments for both sides but I would welcome a state like Florida testing it out for the rest of the country to see. I wonder if this will mean that national channels like the networks and cable news will pull themselves from the Florida market rather than change the way these are doing things now. Or will the networks and cable make a lite version of the news for the Florida market.

 

that mean someone can sue for being called woke?

 

No, that would not fit the narrative or the partisan spirit of the bill.

 

I would think it falls under the same requirements as other defamation cases. I think name calling like Bird-brain Nikki, and crooked Hillary would fall under these laws too especially if they could prove it caused people to think it is true and treat them differently because it like being called a racist. It may not apply to public figures but someone called woke may be able to argue they we treated differently because they were labeled woke like being called a racist. I know Rachel Zegler's career has been greatly impacted since being labeled as woke.

 

Are we referring to the same bill?



This seems to be interpreting media professionals as public figures, where a higher standard to sue for defamation applies.

 

This is a snowflake bill if there ever was one, and serves as a reminder of how we dodged a bullet with DeSatis failing his campaigns.