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FEC May Regulate Online Political Activity

Posted by timothy on from the hard-to-regulate-some-but-not-more dept.

jgarzik writes "A recent federal court ruling ordered the U.S. Federal Elections Commission (FEC) to rewrite rules that currently exempt, rather than regulate, political ads and speech on the Internet. Well, it's looking more and more likely that the FEC will not be able to avoid some amount of Internet regulation. I always thought that freedom of speech originated in part because the framers wanted to protect political speech. I guess I was being naive..."

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  1. Re:FEC announces regulating politics on the intern by deanj · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Better yet, Fahrenheit 9/11 first, then Fahrenhype 9/11 next. Or they can just buy it.

  2. Re:Presidents and responsibility by Antony-Kyre · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I mean this. After the President leaves office, have a special "election" (election used for the lack of a better term) in February or March. Have registered voters give an approval rating to the former President. If he or she gets below a 50% national approval rating, strip his or her pension, and any other benefits you get post-Presidency. This idea would have to be made law, and no, I don't mean it as a simple poll.