{"id":1001023,"date":"2023-02-21T15:17:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T15:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=e87b9d9e619ef894240a39037a58d681"},"modified":"2023-02-21T15:17:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T15:17:23","slug":"free-speech-advocates-say-florida-bill-would-silence-elected-officials-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/21\/free-speech-advocates-say-florida-bill-would-silence-elected-officials-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Speech Advocates Say Florida Bill Would Silence Elected Officials\u2019 Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida House Republican introduced legislation Monday that would make it easier for state officials &mdash; such as censorship-happy Gov. Ron DeSantis &mdash; to sue for defamation, a measure that critics decried as a blatant attack on the freedom of the press and free expression with potentially sweeping implications. Filed by Florida state Rep. Alex Andrade (R-2), H.B. 951 laments that the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/free-speech-advocates-say-florida-bill-would-silence-elected-officials-critics\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/free-speech-advocates-say-florida-bill-would-silence-elected-officials-critics\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New legislation would make it easier for state officials such as Gov. Ron DeSantis to sue for defamation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,17621,3304,1230,57666,4,3837],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001024,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001023\/revisions\/1001024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}