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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:what's really embarassing ... by Doesn't_Comment_Code · · Score: 0, Troll

    And they should! Why should I, and others who agree with me, not be able to pool our money and buy an ad? Even if it is within 30 days of the election and says something that the political class doesn't like?

    First off, I agree with you. I think much of the effort to curtail political speech (and money) is B.S.

    However, the people breaking the rules are the very people who write the rules and expect us to follow them. If THEY can't even do it, why should anyone be expected to. That's why I'm troubled.

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