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FEC Extending Election Regulation to the Internet

Posted by Zonk on from the more-complications-for-the-blogosphere dept.

m_d_j_00 writes "Cnet has a story about Federal Election Commission plans to extend election laws to the Internet." From the article: "In 2002, the FEC exempted the Internet by a 4-2 vote, but U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly last fall overturned that decision. 'The commission's exclusion of Internet communications from the coordinated communications regulation severely undermines' the campaign finance law's purposes, Kollar-Kotelly wrote." This may include regulation of bloggers and mailing lists linking to or forwarding campaign website URLs.

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  1. Re:Oh, that's refreshing.... by Teppy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you're only considering "leading candidates" then I think your "voting decision process" is pretty damn simple already. McDonalds or Burger King, big choice.

  2. Re:I don't think so by Anoraknid+the+Sartor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hell, we'll stay out of your campaigns when your leaders stop describing themselves as "leader of the free world".

    Until then, you will just have to live with it.

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  3. Re:Blog crackdown? Like Iran? by AceCaseOR · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    if Syria is on the list of nations who use torture to try and extract information from prisoners and we (the U.S.) object to such treatment, how come we (the U.S.) send suspected terrorists to Syria for interrogation?

    Now, while we are supposed to be the good guys, good guy interrogation tactics actually aren't that effective. What, precisely, are we supposed to do to interrogate them? Stick them under a hot light and keep asking questions over and over and over and over, until they get sick of us asking and talk, just to get us to shut up? That's practically begging to get fed a line of BS.

    It's a Catch-22. If we be the white-hat and don't use torture, we're either not going to get anything useful, or get fed outright lies. If we do use torture, we're using the kind of things that the "bad-guys" do, the kind of thing that, being the "good-guys" we're not supposed to do.

    Do you have any better ideas for getting information out of suspected terrorists that is likely to work?

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  4. Re:Oh, that's refreshing.... by AceCaseOR · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But what catagory would Burgerville, Wendy's, or Carl's Jr fall into?

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  5. 24! by Reignking · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Torture seems to work for Jack Bauer! Nothin' like shooting a guy in the leg to make him talk!

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  6. Re:Sure, why not by DarkHand · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod parent back up, this is not a Troll. It's rather insightful.