[CodeToad]

I’d like to see the FEC chair provide the legal reference to his BS claim.

[Alberta's Child]

There's a U.S. statute in a footnote at the bottom of the document.

Of course, there is nothing in the statute that defines a "thing of value" to mean unsolicited information that doesn't cost anything. In fact, defining a "thing of value" to include information with no measurable monetary value is a direct violation of the First Amendment.