Posted on 06/29/2005 10:06:40 AM PDT by msjhall
WASHINGTON — The Federal Election Commission says Web logs just might be a threat to democracy and it's considering whether to police them.
The issue, being discussed during FEC hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday, is whether some Web sites actually provide unregulated benefits to specific political campaigns. The famously free-spirited Web community is fighting back.
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"Web logs just might be a threat to democracy..."
Oh, H E L L No... No Effin' way!
This is the first shot over the bow of the good ship FREE REPUBLIC and the garbage scow DEMOCRAT UNDERGROUND......
The issue, being discussed during FEC hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday, is whether some Web sites actually provide unregulated benefits to specific political campaigns.
It's called FREEDOM. To the elites the danger of blogs is that they can't be controlled by a third party. That pretty much renders the FEC useless which is a good thing.
Does it seem that a whole slew of government agencies are making wacky pronouncements like this? The USSC rulings and then plainly wrong dreck like the subject of this thread, that sort of thing.
They're very nervous about people engaging in free thinking. They want everybody wrapped up in American Idol and the other forms of dope put out by the networks.
Eminent domain, Campaign Finance, Patriot Act, gun control, Confiscation of property, hmmm.
About all I need is some soldiers quartering in my house without permission and I think I have a Bill of Rights bingo.
I'm more inclined to believe that they know their time in power is ending, beyond the White House and Congress, and they're flailing like mad to put in their changes before history moves on.
Call me a radical that is willing to fight for our freedom once again! The fact that this is even talked about much less seriously being considered says all I need to know about how much liberty we have lost and how Un-American our government has become.
this will go nowhere.
Rules!?!? There's no rules in blogging!!
i'm sure some parents with kids in the military feel like that on leave...
the democrats on the pannel and their front organizations are waging war in favor of more regulation. just wrote a 'blog' about this yesterday:
http://www.neoperspectives.com
Web sites as political actors became an issue in Republican Sen. John Thune's (search) upset victory over then-Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle
It goes back to the pre-web days as well. The campaign to DeFoley8 Congress (remove sitting speaker Tom Foley) was an email list fueled effort, at least in large part.
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