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Congress Gets Their Own Piece of YouTube to Host Videos
YouTube has promised a commercial-free zone in the near future to help Congress deal with the problem of hosting campaign videos that were technically breaking the rule of not redirecting constituents to a commercial site. "Within a month, the one and only responder, YouTube, should have its commercial-free zone up and running, Capuano said. Republicans on the commission still fret that with only one such site, the House could be seen as picking winners and losers on the Web. Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), another commission member, said the panel's Republicans want to keep the new rules fluid enough to use any future Web site that comes forward with a better plan. 'Technology moves fast. Congress moves slow,' he said."
YouTube will have a channel dedicated to campaign videos. The videos will not link to "commercial" sites after being played.
How is this newsworthy?
A dedicated channel for lies, and shitty political commentary by youtube users? Where do I opt out?
In it (can't remember where it was) he talks about going around the media going directly to the people to bypass the corrupt culture in government... and mentions he will make transparency a big part of his platform, and youtube all white house meetings.
Make sure everyone's vote counts: Verified Voting
"Hard" and "soft" money has nothing to do with opting out of public funding. In fact, the record amounts of money raised in the primaries HAS been "hard" money -- or money raised under the ~$2,000 per person limit to candidates.
Soft money refers to ulimited donations to interest groups that, because of free speech laws, are able to run ads and perform other activities to support particular ideas and parties (which may just happen to align perfectly with one candidate).
The reason the candidates aren't accepting public funding is that while it gives candidates a bonus per dollar raised, it also limits how much they can spend. The amounts a major national figure can raise today is actually larger than the most they can collect under public funding plus the government subsidy.
So close and yet so far from the world's perfect ID number
If I can host flash video and a simple player on my £30/year web host, is there any good reason their in house tech is 'slow and cumbersome'? Flash video is not rocket science.
Come as you are, do what you must, be who you will.
Republicans on the commission still fret that with only one such site, the House could be seen as picking winners and losers on the Web.
Every time I see popular political videos on You Tube it looks to me like Republicans are the losers on the web.
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
You are quite correct, I had two separate but often associated concepts intertwined. Thank you for clarifying.
I've had the good fortune of being represented by Capuano in Boston. He's great, because he maintains an electronic newsletter detailing issues faced by the House and his rationale for voting. Regardless of where you're from, I recommend visiting his site and taking a look at his "e-updates" to get a sense of the political process.
http://www.house.gov/capuano/
Awesome, awesome congressman.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1100/1
He wants to cut the VSE budget to use the money for education.
If this happens then the VSE will flounder and it will be the end of human spaceflight. Some of you may think that's a good thing. If you are not one of these people, please, STOP OBAMA.
How we know is more important than what we know.
I can't wait for that video to get released.
-- Will program for bandwidth