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March 26, 2005
More FEC on Blogs Info
News.com reports on blogs and the FEC:
Political bloggers and other online commentators narrowly avoided being slammed with a sweeping set of Internet regulations this week.When the Federal Election Commission kicked off the process of extending campaign finance rules to the Internet on Thursday, the public document was substantially altered from one prepared just two weeks earlier and reviewed by CNET News.com.
krempasky at redstate.org suggests that
And now, we can prove that 1) Smith was right, and then some, 2) Had Smith not rung that bell, we may well have regretted it, 3) those on the FEC that criticized smith and told bloggers, in effect, to “chill out” weren’t being honest with us and 4) the FEC should be viewed with the highest suspicion throughout this regulatory process.As late as yesterday, FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub said at the public hearing, “I am not aware of anyone here who views this rulemaking as a vehicle for shutting down the right on any individual to use his electronic soapboax to voice his political views.” From reading this, one has to wonder if Mrs. Weintraub even read the first draft of the rule, as provided by the FEC General Counsel’s office – on March 10th, 2005.
He also provides this link to a PDF of the FEC first draft of the regulations.
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Posted by Pete at March 26, 2005 03:38 PM
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