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> DeSantis demanded new defamation law and this guy wants to be president

• mywittyname 4y ago
  Will likely be president.*
  • yamtaddle 4y ago
    Yeah, the right-wing media sphere is behind him hard, and Biden's popularity's not looking great, to put it mildly. Decent odds DeSantis takes 2024—his biggest hurdle's probably other Republicans in the primary. Glad Democrats used their time in the majority to aggressively fix the problems that made even a very-stupid coup an actual threat, last time... oh, wait. :-/
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• engineer_22 4y ago
  You just grabbed a sub heading. Here's the text of DeSantis argument FWIW -> The defamation proposals were spurred by DeSantis, who last month held a roundtable discussion on media defamation and called on the legislature "to protect Floridians from the life-altering ramifications that defamation from the media can cause for a person who does not have the means or the platform to defend himself." "We've seen over the last generation legacy media outlets increasingly divorce themselves from the truth and instead try to elevate preferred narratives and partisan activism over reporting the facts," DeSantis said. "When the media attacks me, I have a platform to fight back. When they attack everyday citizens, these individuals don't have the adequate recourses to fight back. In Florida, we want to stand up for the little guy against these massive media conglomerates."
  • yamtaddle 4y ago
    In context, it follows Trump frequently complaining about defamation laws being too hard to use to harass media organizations, and use of anti-defamation laws by powerful figures in other countries (with different laws) to suppress criticism. I would absolutely not take DeSantis' claim about why he's pushing it, at face value.