Federal Election Commission to Consider Regulating Online Political Speech

CNSNEWS ^ | Feb. 11, 2015 | Rudy Takala

[PROCON]

(CNSNews.com) -- The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is holding a hearing today to receive public feedback on whether it should create new rules regulating political speech, including political speech on the Internet that one commissioner warned could affect blogs, YouTube videos and even websites like the Drudge Report.

The hearing is a response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in McCutcheon v. FEC last year, which struck down the FEC’s previous cap on aggregate campaign contributions from a single donor in an election cycle.

Before the decision, individuals were limited to a combined total of $46,200 in contributions to all federal candidates, and $70,800 to federal political action committees and parties.

Individuals are no longer restricted by aggregate limits, which Chief Justice John Roberts said "intrude without justification on a citizen's ability to exercise 'the most fundamental First Amendment activities'."

[TBP]

What gives them any authority to regulate what I say on the Internet? (Because I’m going to keep saying it.)

[lentulusgracchus]

Where does a federal agency get the right to modify The First Amendment?

Obama's phone. He's not stupid enough to use his pen: "Never write nuttin' down!"

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

From Feb. 11.

FEC Nanny State PING!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[unixfox]

This government is on full blown attack against the American people.

Time to put them down. By ANY means necessary.

[Constitutional Patriot]

Junk the GOPe while you are at it as they are complicit. It’s so frustrating when you have no representation in D.C., especially when they take $.50 of every dollar we make and use these resources to further undermine us. Tax slaves...that’s what we are.

[Don Corleone]

“No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.”(Underlining added for emphasis) —Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804. ME 11:33

[philman_36]

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I’m led to the conclusion that “content” is the real concern.