[Lazamataz]

Web loggers, who pride themselves on freewheeling political activism, might face new federal rules on candidate endorsements, online fundraising and political ads, though bloggers who don't take money from political groups would not be affected.........

............for now.

After all, we media elites are SICK and TIRED of all the free speech around here.

[Steve_Seattle]

"for now"

Exactly. Read (Leftist law prof) Cass Sunstein's book "Republic.com" (with laudatory dust jacket blurbs from Ted Kennedy and Hillary) to see some of the things the Left wants to do to regulate political speech on the Internet. This is just the beginning of a long march to try to suppress conservative political speech, or render it ineffective, expensive, or illegal.

[Steve_Seattle]

The Left is fundamentally anti-democratic and anti-free speech; this is a central plank of Marxism, to control the media. The last election made this even more clear to the Left, who saw how bloggers were getting in the way of their spin by exposing fake stories and/or bad reporting in the MSM. They are absolutely obsessed both with Fox and the Internet bloggers, and will do what they can to regulate both.