Bloggers Avoid Federal Crackdown on Speech

InklingBooks writes "Redstate has a chilling description of the FEC's original March 10 proposal to regulate political speech on the Internet. It would have been a 'regulatory minefield for bloggers' and may yet return." CNet has a view of this earlier language as well. It's important to note that the regulation has changed much since the initial draft. The FEC began consideration of more developed regulation language on Thursday. From the article: "So, the original attempt to regulate started with the premise that everything was to be regulated except that with limited distribution or on password-protected sites."

Comments

Re:Er did i miss the point or something?

[Anonymous Coward]

As one of the greatest minds in the history of humankind once said: "There ought to be limits to freedom."

Re:Freedom of Speech

[Anonymous Coward]

and the SCOTUS usually gives it the most protection.

Can anyone see "SCOTUS" and not think of scrotum?

Monster Raving Loony Party

[Anonymous Coward]

you might find a guy who might just do his job because he didn't win threw a popularity contest

Yes! Vote for the Monster Raving Loony Party!

Re:International /.

[Anonymous Coward]

That's fine, you have a big country after all. It is however only around 5% of the world's population...

And over 25% of the world's total economic output, and responsible for creating almost all the technologies that make blogs possible, from the idea of the blog down to the network that distributes it... In any case the word "Federal" should obviously indicate this is only applicable to American sites; we're not France, after all.

Re:Interesting ediorial from WSJ

[nettdata]

I'm surprised that /.ers are just now hearing about it.

Yeah... I would have thought it wouldn't be heard about until sometime late next week... twice.

Re:Yikes

[croddy]

honestly, I feel it would probably be worth the death or repression of millions if we could quickly clean the internet of bloggers.