MEDIA AND POLITICS

DeSantis Takes Aim At Our Right to a Free Press

Weakening defamation rules would also stifle citizen dissent

A 2017 protest at Los Angeles airport against the Trump Muslim ban /Photo by Kayla Velasquez on Unsplash

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently distanced himself from a bill requiring bloggers to register with the state and produce monthly reports on what they publish. That proposal, from a lawmaker allied with him, is much too…