Posted on 08/12/2010 8:00:18 AM PDT by SmithL
Tweeters, bloggers and Facebook users beware: The state Fair Political Practices Commission is on to you.
Online political activity has long been considered a Wild West of unregulated free speech, where everything from YouTube videos to Facebook postings can circulate without any hint of who paid for them.
Today, the five-member commission is likely to take an important first step to ending that online party.
It's poised to write rules that would require campaigns to follow the same guidelines governing old-world media such as TV commercials and mailers.
That means requiring text on online ads that disclose the spots' funders, and campaign finance information that says who paid for the Facebook pages of candidates and political committees.
The recommendations by the commission's Subcommittee on Internet Political Activity, however, exempt those who spend less than $1,000 to get their online message out in an effort to protect "grassroots political activity by ordinary citizens."
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
These are the same commissars that fined the Mormons for their support of Prop 8.
Wow.
Last year:
The Whitehouse blog is telling supporters of Obama’s health care reform that there is disinformation about health care reform out there and they want your help in finding it.
These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help.
They ask that if you get any emails from friends or see things on the Internet that are “fishy”, please report it to flag@whitehouse.gov. If I hadn’t seen this for myself, I would have thought somebody was trying to push some crazy conspiracy theory.
it would be great to flood that flag@whitehouse.gov
email address with parodies, insults, actual LIBERAL chain emails (those are always “fishy” and worse), etc.
Just overwhelm them with stuff
Progressive Fascism in action
CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW...
(The frog doesn’t notice a little increase in the temperature of the water, at first...)
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