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FREEPERS - HEADS UP!!! > Federal Election Commission says Web Blogs might be a threat to democracy
Fox News Channel ^ | June 29, 2005

Posted on 06/29/2005 1:46:27 PM PDT by AWestCoaster

The Federal Election Commission says Web blogs just might be a threat to democracy and it's considering whether to police them.

The issue, being discussed during FEC hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday, is whether some Web sites actually provide unregulated benefits to specific political campaigns. The famously free-spirited Web community is fighting back.....

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: blog; democracy; fec; internet; weblogs
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Bad enough. But if the Hildebeast became Prez, here is her feelings in 2001:

"As exciting as these new developments are.... there are a number of serious issues without any kind of editing function or gate-keeping function. What does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation, or to respond to what someone says?

There used to be this old saying that the lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on. Well, today, the lie can be twice around the world before the truth gets out of bed to find its boots. I mean, it is just beyond imagination what can be disseminated.

She was asked in the past if she favored control of the internet:

"Anytime an individual or an institution or an invention leaps so far out ahead of that balance [contemplated by the Founders] and throws a system, whatever it might be -- political, economic, technological -- out of balance, you've got a problem, because then it can lead to the oppression of people's rights, it can lead to the manipulation of information, it can lead to all kinds of bad outcomes which we have seen historically. So we're going to have to deal with that."

1 posted on 06/29/2005 1:46:32 PM PDT by AWestCoaster
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To: AWestCoaster
The Federal Elections Commission has proved itself, time and time again, to be a threat to democracy and freedom in America.

They should be eliminated.

2 posted on 06/29/2005 1:48:25 PM PDT by muawiyah (q)
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To: AWestCoaster

The FEC is a threat to democracy.......


3 posted on 06/29/2005 1:49:04 PM PDT by Red Badger (The Army makes the world safe for democracy. The Marines make the world safe for the Army.....)
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To: AWestCoaster

I have three words for the FEC: Remember Fat George.


4 posted on 06/29/2005 1:49:11 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: AWestCoaster

"unregulated benefits?!?!?"

those two words alone are despicable when describing free speech!!!


5 posted on 06/29/2005 1:51:44 PM PDT by Zeppelin (If we lose the war on terror... http://www.ebaumsworld.com/waronterrorism.html)
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To: AWestCoaster
If ANYTHING is a threat to democracy, it's the predominantly liberal MSM.

THEY need to be regulated!
6 posted on 06/29/2005 1:52:06 PM PDT by Jackson Brown
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To: AWestCoaster

And the FEC is a threat to Freedom of Speech.


7 posted on 06/29/2005 1:52:07 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: AWestCoaster

I have some words to say about the FEC, but they might get me banned. I'll leave it at that.


8 posted on 06/29/2005 1:53:04 PM PDT by SamFromLivingston
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To: AWestCoaster

CBS news is a threat to democracy.


9 posted on 06/29/2005 1:53:55 PM PDT by G.Love (Senate majority - use it or lose it.)
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To: AWestCoaster

Seems to me if the DIM cry babies foist this on the eWorld, it will hurt them as much as it hurts people who tell the truth.


10 posted on 06/29/2005 1:55:27 PM PDT by OriginalChristian (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: AWestCoaster

Congress can reign in the FEC . . . if it wanted to.


11 posted on 06/29/2005 1:55:46 PM PDT by savedbygrace ("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
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To: AWestCoaster
Time to disambiguate.

The Federal Election Commission says Web blogs just might be a threat to democracy MSM hegemony and it's considering whether to police them.

12 posted on 06/29/2005 1:56:14 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Making accusations of racism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: mewzilla
Remember Fat George

Who?

13 posted on 06/29/2005 1:58:08 PM PDT by theDentist (The Dems have put all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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To: AWestCoaster

"actually provide unregulated benefits to specific political campaigns"

Anyone who can't see freedom of speech/political association rights here shouldn't hold a government job, even if it involves picking up roadkill.


14 posted on 06/29/2005 1:58:41 PM PDT by Spok
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To: theDentist
How quickly they forget! ;)


15 posted on 06/29/2005 2:00:51 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: AWestCoaster

Don't worry, SCOTUS will back us up (right?).


16 posted on 06/29/2005 2:04:02 PM PDT by umgud (Comment removed by poster before moderator could get to it)
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To: mewzilla

the entrenched elites show signs of panic


17 posted on 06/29/2005 2:04:56 PM PDT by Dad yer funny
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To: Dad yer funny

Goody.


18 posted on 06/29/2005 2:07:01 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: AWestCoaster

It won't be just the blogs they will consider a threat to democracy...it will be the web itself, especially the likes of FreeRepublic.

The threat is the FEC. Is that an acronym for the Fascist Election Council? Just askin'.


19 posted on 06/29/2005 2:07:41 PM PDT by madison10
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To: AWestCoaster
Mine has been called a threat to civilization as we know it!

Damned If I Know

20 posted on 06/29/2005 2:08:10 PM PDT by sharktrager (My life is like a box of chocolates, but someone took all the good ones.)
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