Political Bloggers Demand Speech Freedoms

[Kadie]

Political Bloggers Demand Speech Freedoms
By DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press Writer

Thursday, September 22, 2005



(09-22) 09:19 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --


Political bloggers who offer diverse views on Republicans and Democrats, war and peace argued on Thursday that they should be free of government regulation.

The notion was echoed by some members of the government agency trying to write rules covering the Internet's reach in political campaigns.

Amid the explosion of political activity on the Internet, a federal court has instructed the six-member Federal Election Commission to draw up regulations that would extend the nation's campaign finance and spending limits to the Web.

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Michael J. Krempasky, director of the Web site RedState.org, said that if bloggers have to meet a government test every time they discuss politics, "the reaction will be completely predictable: rather than deal with the red tape of regulation and the risk of legal problems, they will fall silent on all issues of politics."

But Scott E. Thomas, the FEC commissioner, said his agency's original exemption for the Internet was a mistake and the FEC should come up with rules for Internet campaign ads in light of the $14 million spent on Internet ads in the 2004 campaign.

more...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/09/22/national/w091919D42.DTL

[jillan]

1. With these nutcases in control of everything, I have been nervously

waiting for regulations on the internet.

I was wondering how they would achieve it.
Now we know step #1`:grr: