Are donations made by Free Republic to specific campaigns or specific candidates? IOW, would Free Republic (as opposed to Jim Robinson, private citizen) make a donation to Candidate XYZ in the next Presidential election on behalf of all Freepers?
If not, then why could we be regulated as part of CFR:? Is they answer simply nothing more than because they say it is? In an earllier time I would blow this off and say the courts would never uphold this. Of course, that was before CFR.
No they are not .. though freepers do put up threads or make posts endorsing candidates
The FEC could forbid sites like FR from doing that 60 days before an election