Too bad, too sad, too little and too late. I think free speech loving bloggers on both sides of the aisle will be working overtime to see McCain/Feingold and all such infringements on free speech thrown out by the Supreme Court. What part of the first amendment do they NOT understand? I mean, besides all of it.
Between McCain-Feingold, the Kelo decision, and numerous gun control measures, the government has turned the Bill of Rights into a hollow shell.
That sounds as reasonable as, say, restricting all political expenditures by any candidate to no more than $10,000 (or permitting unrestricted editorializing by major newspapers as long as their annual expenditures do not exceed $10,000).
I wish Republicans were the ruling party in Washington.
Unconstitutional, just like everything government is doing these days and for the past 50 years or so. But the SC won't throw it out. Watch.
Sad to see them actively attacking the first Amendment.
"'We want [the Web] to become as free as it possibly can without undermining the entire campaign-finance-reform legislation,' he added."
"We want the world to have free speech and lots of freedom, as long as it isn't in violation of UN government directives," the UN added.
If the FEC ever rules that it has the power to regulate blogging, they will find out that it only takes a New York Second to move the hosting of a blog from the US to a jurisdiction that does not restrict the freedom of speech.
A Google search of "anonymous offshore hosting" give 454,000 hits. Some firms, such as katzglobal will hold your domain name for you anonymously, so nobody can find out who controls the blog.
When I was growing up, people use to say, 'it is a free country'. It's not very free when you have to host your blog in Panama or Hong Kong in order to enjoy the First Amendment as it was written.
A ping list for important stuff is needed.
I missed this yesterday!