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San Francisco Attempts to Regulate Blogging

Posted by timothy on from the encroaching-state dept.

Lawrence Person writes "Forget about theocratic Iran or Communist China; today's report of a political entity trying to regulate blogging comes not from The People's Republic of China, but rather The People's Republic of San Francisco. 'The San Francisco Board of Supervisors [announced] yesterday that it will soon vote on a city ordinance that would require local bloggers to register with the city Ethics Commission and report all blog-related costs that exceed $1,000 in the aggregate." Worse, this is not an April Fools joke. It seems that 'campaign finance reform' is turning out to be the biggest Trojan Horse in the campaign to regulate free speech. "Are you now or have you ever been a blogger?"" Chris Nolan -- the "not a joke" link above -- is more reserved about the true scope of the proposed law (which would deal with election-related journaling specifically, not most diary-style Web journals), but has little good to say about it.

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  1. Just goes to show... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Liberals love freedom of speech/press... as long as it agrees with their beliefs. You'd only see this out of the People's Republic of San Francisco (and maybe the People's Republic of Massachusetts... lol).

  2. Re:What's a blog? by Eternally+optimistic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's San Francisco, they like to regulate things.

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  3. You knew this was coming... by Lord+Kano · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It seems that 'campaign finance reform' is turning out to be the biggest Trojan Horse in the campaign to regulate free speech.

    We told you so.
    We told you so.
    We told you so.
    We told you so.

    Conservatives were screaming from the rooftops about how "Campaign Finance Reform", specifically McCain-Feingold.

    This is the kind of abuse that we TOLD EVERYONE would result. People assumed that the Democrats would retake congress in the last two elections. People assumed that Democrats would have the White House. People assumed that it would only be Right to Life groups and the NRA who were hamstrung by "Campaign Finance Reform", they were wrong.

    I'm not new to slashdot. I remember seeing people here time and time again talk about how this "reform" was needed. Isn't this what you wanted?

    LK

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  4. is Rush posting again? by Sebastopol · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...ok, who gave Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter a /. account? Taco? Neil? Fess up!

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