Once it’s gone, it’s gone. The frivolity with which you treat this without even looking much into negative possible effects is bothersome, considering you previous had been a large advocate for free speech.

Florida gets a C-. Are they going to strengthen Anti-SLAPP laws anytime soon?

No. They’re trying to curb dissent and want the power to be at the State level. If anything, it’s likely they’ll weaken.

So, knowing a newspaper could be sued to oblivion for a single negative article, would it have a chilling effect on people like me posting on Facebook and X?

AI already scours social media for “negative affect” expressed about you — Clout metrics have been around for years online —

post gets flagged for “negative affect”, sent to excel spreadsheet for automated lawsuit by some auto-suing company, lawsuit goes out , gotta show up at the courthouse and sign something. and the process begins.

And do I think they won’t do that in states like florida when finding negative affect and robo-suing against regular people? They will.