I just started reading through the new FL higher education bill, and it appears to be absolutely bonkers. Will probably write more later about specific provisions and problems. In the meantime, you can read it yourself here:
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/999/BillText/Filed/PDF
Jokes aside, this is standard M.O. for the anti-CRT / anti-wokeness / anti-PC crowd: Scream that you support free speech and want to free everyone's minds ... and then define progressive thought as intrinsically oppressive and indoctrinating. Hence, the state must engage in viewpoint-based suppression ... in the name of freedom.
And it's not new, though I think it's getting more dangerous. I wrote about this phenomenon in 2017, describing the anti-PC rhetoric of the 80s and 90s, as well as that of more recent times: https://www.minnesotalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Kitrosser.pdf
@heidikitrosser They don't have very many different strategies, or particularly sophisticated ones, but the ones that they do have appear to have been refined and calibrated until they are disproportionally effective. Of course billionaire allies buying the entire media also helps.
