[Redcloak]

Reformers also are concerned about situations in which bloggers are paid to advocate a certain point of view, but don't reveal it to their readers, Hasen said.

...a group of [paid] bloggers backing U.S. Senate candidate John Thune, a Republican, relentlessly attacked incumbent Democrat Tom Daschle.

"I want to know that when I'm reading the post," [Richard] Hasen[, a professor of election law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles] said.

Fine... Then regulate pro-bloggers; not everyone else. Of course, it will all be meaningless when the servers move to Tahiti and the mods are all wearing Hawaiian shirts and drinking out of coconut shells. Piña Coladas, anyone? A Mai Tai?

[chris1]

The Bushes, McCains, Doles, Clintons, Reids, Pelosis, et all, would like nothing better than to shut us up, both right and left.