Links ARCHIVE: CNET News.com - Crackdown On Blogs Coming

Bradley Smith says that the freewheeling days of political blogging and online punditry are over.

Published on March 4, 2005 By joeKnowledge In Websites

EDIT: On this note, you might want to read what is being said about this on 2 sites:

Neowin: Judge rules in Apples favor against Bloggers (ThinkSecret)
SlashDot (Also has links to editorials on subject)

In this case, what would happen to Neowin if it were to publish something from a 'unknown source'?

SOURCE: CNET news.com

The coming crackdown on blogging

By Declan McCullagh March 3, 2005, 4:00 AM PT

In just a few months, he warns, bloggers and news organizations could risk the wrath of the federal government if they improperly link to a campaign's Web site. Even forwarding a political candidate's press release to a mailing list, depending on the details, could be punished by fines.

Smith should know. He's one of the six commissioners at the Federal Election Commission, which is beginning the perilous process of extending a controversial 2002 campaign finance law to the Internet.

In 2002, the FEC exempted the Internet by a 4-2 vote, but U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly last fall overturned that decision. "The commission's exclusion of Internet communications from the coordinated communications regulation severely undermines" the campaign finance law's purposes, Kollar-Kotelly wrote....

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Comments

ParaTed2k

on Mar 05, 2005

McCain-Feingold Campaign finance reform should be used as the example of how NOT to reform anything. The 2004 election season showed that bit of idiocy for what it really was.

Anyone still for it, is equally idiotic.

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