FEC Deciding Future of Political Blogs

Posted by Zonk on Friday September 23, 2005 @02:43AM from the won't-someone-think-of-the-livejournals dept.

* * Beatles-Beatles wrote to mention a bill entitled "The Online Freedom of Speech Act". The act, if passed, would make the Internet into a form of media subject to campaign finance laws. From the article: "Amid the explosion of political activity on the Internet, a federal court has instructed the six-member Federal Election Commission to draw up regulations that would extend the nation's campaign finance and spending limits to the Web. The FEC, in its initial rules, had exempted the Internet. Bloggers told the Committee on House Administration that regulations encompassing the Internet, even ones just on advertising, would have a chilling effect on free speech. The FEC vice chairman also questioned the necessity of any rules." Update: 09/23 15:33 GMT by Z : Edited to correct Congress != FEC.

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Re:And people wonder why you should be against by Brushfireb · 2005-09-23 04:20 · Score: 0, Troll

Worse yet, you might suffer catastrophic brain trauma when your head impacts with the widshield at 60 mph, and you might have to have a steering column surgically removed from your sternum.

Whats your point? Laws should prevent someone else from fucking with me, not me fucking with me.

If you apply economic logic like the GP, it makes more sense. But even then seat belt laws are a joke. It only matters in a society where the government pays for healthcare. Individuals should be responsible for their own decisions, instead of having government officials decide for them.

Some laws, no matter how good they might sound for me, are really removing decision making power from me and placing it into corrupt officials.