On the FEC regulating blogs
The story is here:
In just a few months, he warns, bloggers and news organizations could risk the wrath of the federal government if they improperly link to a campaign’s Web site. Even forwarding a political candidate’s press release to a mailing list, depending on the details, could be punished by fines.
Smith should know. He’s one of the six commissioners at the Federal Election Commission, which is beginning the perilous process of extending a controversial 2002 campaign finance law to the Internet.
In 2002, the FEC exempted the Internet by a 4-2 vote, but U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly last fall overturned that decision. “The commission’s exclusion of Internet communications from the coordinated communications regulation severely undermines” the campaign finance law’s purposes, Kollar-Kotelly wrote.
Mike’s poster is appropriate. It’s also one of the random things that appears in the upper right corner here at SayUncle.
However, what Phelps said is more to the point. The good news is that in that post he vowed to blog every day.
March 3rd, 2005 at 5:26 pm
Sorry, but Im just not getting so worked up over this. I think all these stories about what FCC and FEC commissioners are thinking about doing months and years down the road are nothing more than Quioxtic attempts to create discussion that leads to traffic for their site.
I’m just not that worried about them clamping down on individual blogs (or even group blogs) though they may very well impose limits on things like KOS’s fund raising machines.
March 3rd, 2005 at 6:27 pm
Hmmm if they pay me money, i will say or not say whatever they want me to.
March 3rd, 2005 at 10:30 pm
Mike’s poster rocks.. and I don’t even blog about politics…