Friday, September 08, 2017
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fec-democrat-facebooks-russia-ads-are-proof-disclaimer-rules-need-an-update/article/2633772 (opens annoying video.)
related: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fec-dems-renew-bid-to-regulate-internet-drudge-not-done-fighting/article/2633801
more thoughts: i think it's -probably constitutional, 1st A, to try to pass a bill that's unconstitutional. it's her role in then carrying out those rules, new or old, that would be illegal.
and she might enjoy absolute and qualified immunity. but if she's a lawyer this is still unethical - in my opinion, which might not be shared by her discipline board.
update story now linked at drudge.
FEC Dems renew bid to regulate DRUDGE...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJJyoeIW0AAUv6d.jpg:large
text of the weintraub letter.
"public comment will be reopened for 30 days" after the meeting. so it's time to refile my 1998-AO-22 statement, and the other statements i've made on the topic over the years, and write some new stuff.
There ar enow at least a dozen stories in various media discussing her letter; i may add some links later.
Ellen Weintraub, a Democratic commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, is calling on the independent government agency to address Internet communication disclaimers at an open meeting next week, following the revelation that Facebook sold ads to Russian-linked accounts during the 2016 campaign.
"It is imperative that we update the Federal Election Commission's regulations to ensure that the American people know who is paying for the internet political communications they see," Weintraub said in a letter Thursday to the chairman of the FEC, Steven Walther.
"Given the revelations of the past few days regarding the secret purchase of thousands of internet political ads by foreign actors during the 2016 presidential election, there can no longer reasonably be any doubt that we need to revise and modernize our internet disclaimer regulations," Weintraub added. "The need for us to act grows more compelling every day."
Weintraub said she would invite leaders and experts from technology companies including Facebook, Twitter, and Google to attend the meeting and to assist the FEC in determining the best Internet disclaimer rules moving forward....
Arbitrary Aardvark
46 seconds ago
What Weintraub is conspiring to do here is unconstitutional, illegal, and a violation of ethics rules if she is, as i think she is, a lawyer. The unconstitutionality of disclaimer regulations was established by the civil rights cases of the 1960s, especially in Talley v California (1960), and upheld multiple times in cases like McIntyre and ACLF in the 1990s. A disclaimer regulation limited to facebook ads from foreign governments would probably be ok, but that's not what she's tying to do here. When she tried this before, thousands of us filed comments saying "Hands off the internet!" We haven't forgotten.
more thoughts: i think it's -probably constitutional, 1st A, to try to pass a bill that's unconstitutional. it's her role in then carrying out those rules, new or old, that would be illegal.
and she might enjoy absolute and qualified immunity. but if she's a lawyer this is still unethical - in my opinion, which might not be shared by her discipline board.
update story now linked at drudge.
FEC Dems renew bid to regulate DRUDGE...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJJyoeIW0AAUv6d.jpg:large
text of the weintraub letter.
"public comment will be reopened for 30 days" after the meeting. so it's time to refile my 1998-AO-22 statement, and the other statements i've made on the topic over the years, and write some new stuff.
There ar enow at least a dozen stories in various media discussing her letter; i may add some links later.
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