Free Republic's Comments on the FEC's Draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Internet Communications

Federal Election Commission ^ | Friday, June 3, 2005 | Kristinn

[fat city]

Pretty good summation of FR activities (I mean, without getting into Zots, hold muh beer, etc). You might want to remind them of the great Pandora's box that gvmnt regs opened with "Campaign Finance Regulation". Thanks for good representation.

[The SISU kid]

FF (Favorite FReepers) ping...Good stuff here that could effect all of us!!

[Conspiracy Guy]

It needs a picture of me with a pancake on my head. Other than that it is a good letter.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Thanks for the ping. I don't get to FReep much lately.

[Unicorn]

Good job!!!!!!

[Asphalt]

Not an NFL ping, just FYI

[Calpernia]

Your picture is always a welcome sight :)

[Calpernia]

bump!

[Dems_R_Losers]

Kristinn, I frequently write comment letters on federal and state regulations as part of my job, and I think your letter is excellent!

[freepatriot32]

Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here

[Irish_Thatcherite]

FYI ping.

[upchuck]

Excellent Kristinn. Thank you!!

[mewzilla]

Great letter, kristinn.

I'd like to know how the internet is any different from the 18th century meeting houses of our Founding Fathers' day, and the contents any different from the broadsides produced then?

Infringing on our rights of free speech and assembly is just as dumb and intolerable now as it was then. And any attempt will be about as successful.

[Dog Gone]

The content on FreeRepublic.com consists of postings by registered account holders (over 200,000) and Mr. Robinson.

Realistically, though, it's many thousands less. The trolls who last a few moments here but are banned are included in that number.

Excellent letter, though.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Something along the lines of MD4Bush might do :-)

That would surely give me away as a member of "...the White Christian Party"

I'll be screwed for sure.

[kristinn]

True, but even trolls' activities count for something in this matter. Even if it's negative activity.

[ForGod'sSake]

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[Czar]

I know a good piece of work when I see it. This is a good piece of work. I used to do quite a bit of this in connection with the aerospace & defense industry. Much, but not all, of our regulatory comment was made via several of the industry associations (AIA, EIA, MAPI, etc). Dry as dust but critically important. Occasionally, but not often, they even accepted a few of our requested changes.

[kristinn]

There was no FEC back in those days. But KIng George had his own enforcement mechanisms.

[Calpernia]

'Follow up ping'.

This thread is in reference to the Internet Monitoring thread you just pinged me to.