[AWestCoaster]

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."

[muawiyah]

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.

[Red Badger]

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

[mewzilla]

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

[Zeppelin]

"unregulated benefits?!?!?"

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

[Jackson Brown]

If ANYTHING is a threat to democracy, it's the predominantly liberal MSM.

THEY need to be regulated!

[expatpat]

And the FEC is a threat to Freedom of Speech.

[SamFromLivingston]

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

[G.Love]

CBS news is a threat to democracy.

[OriginalChristian]

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.

[savedbygrace]

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

[Disambiguator]

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.

[Spok]

"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.

[umgud]

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

[madison10]

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'.

[sharktrager]

Mine has been called a threat to civilization as we know it!

Damned If I Know

[Liberty Valance]

The FEC needs to arrest AlGore...
he started this whole internet thingy - LOL IIRC JMHO AFAIC @ www dot com :o)~

[figgers3036]

GRRR!! How awful! People online saying what they want! We'd better stamp out that intolerance right now!

[Mark in the Old South]

Correction:

Web Blogs are a threat to the People's Democratic Republic!

[LTCJ]

I should be investing heavily in tar-and-feathers futures. As it is, I can't seem to wake up from this episode of The Twilight Zone.

[Outland]

Set up your blog or forum with an offshore web host and keep your identity anonymous.

It's curious how in the land of the "free", many such offshore webhosting services are advertising here on the basis of allowing you unhindered free speech. I thought that was suppose to be a hallmark of this country.