FEC Considers Restricting Online Political Activities ( Web Ads, Bloggers' Endorsements) - by Brian Faler, Washington Post, March 21, 2005 - posted to Free Republic, March 21, 2005, by Former Military Chick:
The agency is weighing whether -- and how -- to impose restrictions on a host of online activities, including campaign advertising and politically oriented blogs...
The FEC, which enforces federal election law, had issued scores of regulations delineating how the campaign finance reform legislation adopted in 2002 ought to be implemented...
[Representative] Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) ..., who sponsored the legislation, complained that many of those rules were too lax, and ... successfully sued to have them rescinded.
Where's the ACLU when you need 'em (/sarc)?