Posted on 03/24/2005 10:35:30 AM PST by conservativecorner
Since you’re reading this blog, you probably like it. And you probably want to keep reading it in the future. But that may not be possible. You see, I may go to jail for writing about politics.
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has released a set of proposed “rules” for political speech on the Internet. These rules specify exactly what speech is, and isn’t, allowed on the Internet.
I’m not kidding. They really do want to regulate political speech on the Internet. Bloggers, like yours truly, could be fined and punished for writing about a political candidate, if the FEC decides that we violated some aspect of their byzantine “rules.”
Are you as shocked and outraged by this as I am? What kind of country do you want to live in? America? Or China, where people go to jail for using the Internet for political speech?
Fortunately, there is something you can do. The FEC is asking for your comments on the proposed “rules.”
A suggestion on comments: If you don’t have the time (and who does?) to read and understand all the “rules” the FEC is proposing, just say that the FEC should protect the right to free speech above all other considerations.
Please send your comments to internet@fec.gov. Include your name and postal address.
Otherwise, the next time the lying liberal media pulls a RatherGate, no blogger may be able to challenge them.
-- PoliPundit
What is this first amendment thing I hear so much about?
You knew this was coming. It's easier than burning books, I guess. But this is more frightening. Have a look at the 'rules', and if that doesn't put the fear of God in you, nothing will! Of course enforcing anything like this will be carried out with the same rigor and selective discretion that currently permits Liberals to campaign from the pulpit of any church on any given issue and strictly proscribes campaigning from the pulpit for Conservatives. Scary!
Molon labe.
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Greek for 'Come and get it', for my keyboard and my guns.
My computer seems unable to read the "rules".
bump
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