Bloggers Exempted From Campaign Laws

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 27, 2006 @10:35AM from the bloggers-look-up-then-return-to-linking dept.

MaceyHW writes "The Federal Election Commission ruled today that the only online political activity subject to Campaign Finance Laws are paid advertisements on a third party site. Today's ruling extended the regulations to paid advertising as required by a 2004 Federal Court ruling, but explicitly exempted all other forms of online activity: 'For example, the rule says individuals can use union or corporate computers or other electronic devices for political activity, as long they do it on their own time and are not coerced to engage in such activity by the union or corporation. Bloggers would be entitled to the same exemption from the campaign finance law that newspapers and other traditional forms of media receive. "There will be no second class citizens among members of the media," [FEC Chairman Michael T.] Toner said.'"

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Hi by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-27 11:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I realize Slashdot is the "Yesterday's News for Nerds" site and all, but isn't it about time a story about the death of Stanislaw Lem was posted?

At least in this matter Slashdot doesn't have to be worried about being scooped by Digg, since diggers can't spell "Stanislaw"