Check out the writeup of new FEC internet regulations at Daily Kos:
Today, the Federal Election Commission voted unanimously to approve its final regulations regarding political activity on the Internet. As you know, we had dreaded these regulations for a year and did everything we could to influence or stop them altogether - submitting our own comments to the FEC and encouraging you to do the same (and you did, in the thousands), testifying before the FEC and Congress, and pressuring Capitol Hill to pass legislation protecting the medium.
Congress punted, but something remarkable happened — though it’s not something which ought to be remarkable: the Federal Election Commission reviewed all the comments, asked pointed questions during two days of hearings, deliberated for months . . . and ended up with the only logical conclusion that the facts, technology and law could warrant[...]
Sometimes the government does actually do its job correctly, shocking as though it may seem.
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1 James Bowman // 28 Mar 2006 at 9:23 am
What do you want to bet that politicans and activists on both sides of the political spectrum comb through this with a fine-tooth comb, looking for loopholes…?