OMG. I just realized what the DUmmies are talking about.
Some congress-critters want to apply McCain-FeinGold campaign restrictions on blogs like Powerline [has more info on this]. Its amazing how these delusional DUmmies can misinterpret this issue into "shutting off the internet". What a bunch of loons.
// Here's Powerline's take on the issue. Contrast that with the DUmmie version here.
Bureaucrat promises to let bloggers speak
"Jim Geraghty at TKS reports on the assurances to bloggers provided by Senators McCain and Feingold and FEC commissioner Ellen Weintraub. Geraghty responds that bloggers should be suspicious notwithstanding these assurances.
His points are well-taken. Weintraub's statement seems particularly lame. She hides behind the fact that a U.S. District Court ruled that the internet isn't exempt from McCain-Feingold. But she doesn't explain why the FEC didn't appeal that ruling. Fellow commissioner Bradley Smith says that the Democrats on the commission blocked the appeal. Weintraub also notes that the FEC hasn't drafted its rules yet. But she offers no assurances that the FEC's thinking isn't headed in the direction Smith described. She implies that bloggers will get to "use their electronic soapbox to voice their political views." That's big of the government. But our concern is not that blogs will be eliminated, just regulated. As Captain Ed explains, it's difficult to examine the lawsuit filed by McCain-Feingolf and the district court's decision (never mind Bradley Smith's comments) and not believe that this concern is well-founded."