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Federal Election Commission to Consider Regulating Online Political Speech
cnsnews.com ^ | 2/11/2015 | Rudy Takala

Posted on 02/11/2015 8:36:50 AM PST by rktman

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is holding a hearing today to receive public feedback on whether it should create new rules regulating political speech, including political speech on the Internet that one commissioner warned could affect blogs, YouTube videos and even websites like the Drudge Report.

The hearing is a response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in McCutcheon v. FEC last year, which struck down the FEC’s previous cap on aggregate campaign contributions from a single donor in an election cycle.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; constitution; control; duplicate; fec
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That pesky 1st amendment. Here's an idea for you asshats that hate the constitution. Just start with the 1st and work your way down the list restricting all the supposed government protected rights we thought were not to be interfered with. After all, isn't the constitution just......so, so passe?
1 posted on 02/11/2015 8:36:50 AM PST by rktman
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This whole “net neutrality” thing is yet another scam by our radical Islamic President who was put into office twice by the way, by Democrats, DEMOCRATS. Let history remember that in big fat bold letters, remember that in time of war Democrats had the brilliant idea to put an enemy of the United States in the White House. Good going George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey and all these Hollywood liberati crowd who relentlessly promoted this punk ass mofo and are now quiet as a mouse about all the hell he is unleashing. WTF do they care, they got their millions stashed ready to bolt the country at a moments notice. This “net neutrality” crap is just one more scam like all his other scams to destroy the economy and the country just like the climate change scam, the Obamacare scam, the Amnesty scam, the racism scam, the fighting terrorism scams, the nuclear disarming of Iran scam, the support of Israel scam. “Yeah I support Israel which is why I’m ordering 40 Senators to boycott Bibis speech to Congress because the Jew will upset my Islamo-Nazis buddies”


2 posted on 02/11/2015 8:38:51 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 11 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: rktman

Violates first amendment.

Next.


3 posted on 02/11/2015 8:40:36 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: rktman

They will tax you. They will inhibit you and make sure their ghouls have equal time. They will try to keep you from speaking out against their excesses and invoke claims of hate crime and bigotry. They will ban you, and then they will imprison you.

Then they will kill you if you don’t shut up.


4 posted on 02/11/2015 8:40:56 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: rktman

forget the camel’s nose, in this case the camel will eventually tare down and crap all over the tent


5 posted on 02/11/2015 8:41:29 AM PST by drypowder
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

And he knows his time is short.


6 posted on 02/11/2015 8:41:52 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Gaffer

Somethings never change.


7 posted on 02/11/2015 8:41:54 AM PST by null and void (Our goal is language that is gender-, ethnic- and age-neutral, while celebrating our diversity!)
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To: Gaffer

Kinda weird. It always appears to me that the ghouls get much more air time than those evil right wing extremists radical hater racist baby killers.


8 posted on 02/11/2015 8:42:55 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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This again? It was turned back. What is the White House trying to deflect attention from now?

The debacle in Yemen?

His claim to galactic intervention with ISIS? (I know, worldwide but I’m expecting The Won to start poetry readings of his own making or maybe bringing his horse into the Senate.)

The mess in Ukraine?

The disaster that is the Euro and Grexit?

The miserable US economy?

The Obamacare tax that is nailing the poor citizens to the door?

Ransoming a miserable US traitor but allowing a girl to die at the hands of ISIS?

So many foul ups it’s hard to figure.


9 posted on 02/11/2015 8:43:25 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: cuban leaf

Looks like that ole 2nd Amendment is gonna come in handy against these tyrants.

I’m sick of having to pay for these assholes to tell ME what I can say or do!

F U B O!


10 posted on 02/11/2015 8:43:35 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: rktman; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; ...
The biggest killer of mankind

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...


11 posted on 02/11/2015 8:47:05 AM PST by null and void (Our goal is language that is gender-, ethnic- and age-neutral, while celebrating our diversity!)
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To: cuban leaf

...and is filled with great wrath.


12 posted on 02/11/2015 8:48:08 AM PST by null and void (Our goal is language that is gender-, ethnic- and age-neutral, while celebrating our diversity!)
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To: null and void

It is going to get so “interesting” in the next two years that I don’t give strong odds of many of us physically surviving it. It colors everything for me.


13 posted on 02/11/2015 8:53:29 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: rktman; SMOKING GUN; StevenCrowder
I wrote this, elsewhere:

Once the FCC can regulate the internet, I foresee they can declare various forms of speech 'obscene' and ban it from the internet. Additionally, I foresee them requiring internet licenses (taxed, of course) to post on the internet, with your license being pulled for violations of speech code.

Anything that can vaguely be construed as anti-gay, anti-Islamic, or disparaging of any liberal politician, would be clear violations.

I guaran-damn-tee you this is where we are going, probably within 2-4 years.

I have to say, based on this development, that timeline is now no more than 1 year.

14 posted on 02/11/2015 8:58:01 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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Only a corrupt Administration like this, with a corrupt press in its hip pocket, could even imagine discussing something like this. If and when an honest historian writes a book detailing the raw truth about the last seven years, it will be absolutely mind-boggling!
15 posted on 02/11/2015 8:58:16 AM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: cuban leaf
Violates first amendment. Next.

LOL! Like words on paper will stop these bastards.

16 posted on 02/11/2015 8:58:46 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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Notice how, during Bush, most online newspapers had open and anonymous comment sections after each story. After The One was elected and people were using the comment section to correct biased news stories and trying to get the truth out about what a terrible President he is, they tightened up the comment sections and required registration via things like Facebook.

They didn’t mind people slamming “Bush chimp” or “Bush Nazi”, but all of a sudden got all concerned about courteous commenting behavior when Obama was the target.


17 posted on 02/11/2015 8:59:09 AM PST by Random Access
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Looks like that ole 2nd Amendment is gonna come in handy against these tyrants. I’m sick of having to pay for these assholes to tell ME what I can say or do! F U B O!

Guaren-***ing-teed.

18 posted on 02/11/2015 8:59:33 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: rktman

They just keep going at it. They’re like cockroaches.


19 posted on 02/11/2015 9:00:32 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Je suis Charlie, you miserable Islamist throwbacks!)
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20 posted on 02/11/2015 9:03:45 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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