Friday, October 24, 2014
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/24/youtube-beware-election-spending-regulator-sets-sights-on-political-internet/
As the instapundit might say, tar and feathers.
Circa 2005ish, we generated a then-record 1000+ comments saying hands off the internet,and we thought they got the message, but censorship never sleeps.
Ravel has called for public comment on disclosure and disclaimers, with a January deadline.
http://ballots.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-homework-assignment-statement-of-vice.html
We should take her up on that offer,and send in copies of what we sent in 10 years ago.
I first submitted comments on this issue during the AO 1998-22 Leo Smith episode.
The more things change,the more they stay the same.
First update, probably of many: I emailed the election law list:
http://ballots.blogspot.com/
emailed instapundit and erick erickson. still to do: email EFF and boingboing.
YouTube, Beware: Election-spending regulator sets sights on political Internet videos
FEC chair Ann Ravel calls for more investigation of internet videos after FEC deadlocks.As the instapundit might say, tar and feathers.
Circa 2005ish, we generated a then-record 1000+ comments saying hands off the internet,and we thought they got the message, but censorship never sleeps.
Ravel has called for public comment on disclosure and disclaimers, with a January deadline.
http://ballots.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-homework-assignment-statement-of-vice.html
We should take her up on that offer,and send in copies of what we sent in 10 years ago.
I first submitted comments on this issue during the AO 1998-22 Leo Smith episode.
The more things change,the more they stay the same.
First update, probably of many: I emailed the election law list:
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The infallible Fox News reports that FEC Vice-Chair Ann Ravel is calling for investigation of youtube videos without disclaimers. Tactically I may be making a mistake posting this on a Friday night, but I just caught the article.
To me this ties in with her recent request for comments on the disclosure/disclaimer issues. I thought we settled this ten years ago with the "hands off the internet" campaign, but even I will admit that there are some adjustments to be made in light of CU, superpacs, etc.
I encourage members of this list who do submit comments to copy them to the list for discussion purposes.
I think both the pro and con factions are well represented here. Perhaps someone could draft a proposed joint statement that some of us would want to sign on to
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