FEC May Tighten Restrictions On Internet Political Activity
The Federal Election Commission next month will begin looking at tightening restrictions on political activities on the Internet, ROLL CALL reports Monday.
The FEC is planning to examine the question of how Internet activities, when coordinated with candidates’ campaigns, fit into the definition of ‘public communications.
Specifically, the FEC is planning to examine the question of how Internet activities, when coordinated with candidates’ campaigns, fit into the definition of “public communications.” While coordinated communications are considered campaign contributions and therefore subject to strict contribution limits, current FEC regulations adopted in 2002 carve out an exemption for coordinated political communications that are transmitted over the Internet.
Throughout the entire last campaign season I was wondering how the FEC kept track of internet contributions from sites like the Klueless Kos Klan and ADDTrios.
It looks like they weren�t
I wonder if the left will want McCain Feingold gotten rid of now too?
The bad part of this is that like most government crap, they may take this entirely too far and shut little people like myself up, either by measuring a contribution via the number of hits per day, week or month or just shut down political blogs entirely.
Freedom of speech?
Yeah, right. This is the government were talking about here. I always thought I could talk with my wallet until McCain Feingold. Apparently not anymore.
Keep an eye on this.
Found at Insignificant Thoughts