Dems on FEC move to regulate internet campaigns, blogs, Drudge

Money talks. It is now the ONLY motivator in a society that has become fully leavened with self and wickedness.

Liberty has no value and means nothing outside of one doing whatever they feel like, sans any responsibility and having it paid for by ‘government’ subsidy.

As Rush says so perfectly - you cannot defeat Santa Claus at the ballot box.

“This web site would be next. Aided by the true believers who refuse to vote for the likes of a Romney. It’s real and it’s not a game.”

Exactly, but I don’t think they’ll ever see it until it is too late.

Bogus balloting in Illinois and Florida (at least), but it won’t get a mention by the Partisan Media Shills.

[Media Shills] Filibuster for Wendy Davis
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/katie-yoder/2014/10/23/nets-filibuster-wendy-davis

> The powerplay followed a deadlocked 3-3 vote on whether an Ohio anti-Obama internet campaign featuring two videos violated FEC rules when it did not report its finances or offer a disclosure on the ads. The ads were placed for free on YouTube and were not paid advertising. Under a 2006 FEC rule, free political videos and advocacy sites have been free of regulation in a bid to boost voter participation in politics.

You remember 2006, the year we were assured that only the left seemed to “get” the internet?

I would tend to agree...FEC bites off an enormous responsibility.

First, you’d need a staff of two-thousand per shift, to sit and review blog, by blog, and news article by news article....around the clock.

What happens when the guy mounts his blog to a Tonga IP? Will you seek to block that one blog? You would require at least a hundred administrators working full-time to block IP address after IP address.

The legal staff required to keep the FEC functional? I’d take a guess of 500 to 1,000 lawyers working around the clock. You’d have to figure $500 million a year to just work the legal functions of the staff.

Then you come to bottom line....would you start to infringe upon various left-wing commentary, and start blocking the radicals? Absolute fury would be unleashed.

All of this leads to a 1984-like scenario....where someone decides your news, your health stuff, your economics, and your life. Why bother voting? Why bother paying taxes or paying attention to any rational law?

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