Redstate: New FEC Doc Released-Is it time to freak out yet?
I know they were telling us oh, no, they’re not going to touch the bloggers, but this piece tells us we clearly have some valid concerns, as SH reported in the beginning when the ‘winds of change’ were in the air and people were poo-poo-ing the idea that something was going to happen to the blogosphere.
Plainly, the conservative voices need to be silenced, and they’re going to do it with regulations.
Update [2005-3-25 12:56:51 by krempasky]: – an important clarification – this post does NOT address the proposed rules voted on yesterday by the FEC (which signals the beginning of the public comment period. This post refers to a previously unreleased early draft of those rules – and they are horrible. It’s educational to see where the FEC *started* in this process – but I repeat, these are NOT the rules released yesterday.
Thank God Bradley Smith said something when this was going on, because if he hadn’t said something at that juncture, it’s doubtful we would have ever known.
The FEC’s first draft, however, starts exactly backwards – with the presumption that the internet must be locked down tight, with only small outlets left open for some meager amount of private speech.
Pretty scarey, folks. What happened in Iran with the bloggers being thrown in jail could conceivably happen here, I don’t even see that as a stretch.
At Tech Central Station: The Coming War on Blogs
The founders of our great country expected that different interest groups would seek to use the political process for their personal gain. So in seeking to get the government to hinder bloggers, the MSM will be acting exactly as men such as Alexander Hamilton would have predicted. And Hamilton would not have expected the courts to save bloggers. Rather, he would have hoped that bloggers themselves would politically organize to fight back against the MSM.
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