This issue does not seem murky at all. The legislators way over reached when writing this bill. There are absolutely people who are being exploited as independent contractors like uber drivers and other gig economy workers. If the law focused on these areas I would have no problem. But they took it much further and legislated entire industries of professionals.

Specifically both my wife, a freelance writer, and my mother, a court reporter, have been negatively impacted by this law. I know more about the writer point of view and it is clear the legislators didn't both to understand the industry when placing the 35 article limit per client. My wife has multiple clients whom she writes a weekly blog post for. This is now illegal to do and my wife has lost clients over it. This area of the law is totally backwards the only time my wife has been exploited was as an employee. She went from making 40k as a full time employee to a range of 120k-150k as a freelancer. We are definitely planning on leaving the state over this and will be voting republican (except president) for the first time in our lives over this law.

The TLDR of this law is that arrogant legislators decided to write a bill about dozens of industries they didn't bother to learn anything about.