"Dems on FEC move to regulate Internet campaigns"

[DrLeftover]

Dems on FEC move to regulate Internet campaigns, blogs, Drudge

October 24, 2014

In a surprise move late Friday, a key Democrat on the Federal Election Commission called for burdensome new rules on Internet-based campaigning, prompting the Republican chairman to warn that Democrats want to regulate online political sites and even news media like the Drudge Report.

Democratic FEC Vice Chair Ann M. Ravel announced plans to begin the process to win regulations on Internet-based campaigns and videos, currently free from most of the FEC’s rules. “A reexamination of the commission’s approach to the internet and other emerging technologies is long over due,” she said.

The power play followed a deadlocked 3-3 vote on whether an Ohio anti-President Obama Internet campaign featuring two videos violated FEC rules when it did not report its finances or offer a disclosure on the ads. The ads were placed for free on YouTube and were not paid advertising.

Under a 2006 FEC rule, free political videos and advocacy sites have been free of regulation in a bid to boost voter participation in politics. Only Internet videos that are placed for a fee on websites, such as the Washington Examiner, are regulated just like normal TV ads.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/dems-on-fec-move-to-regulate-internet-campaigns-blogs-drudge/article/2555270

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Hell the leftists if they could would want to regulate what side of the bed I sleep on.

 

[Webster]

Hell the leftists if they could would want to regulate what side of the bed I sleep on.

Wouldn't that be something conservatives would be more likely to do, given their penchant for wanting to regulate what goes on in people's' bedrooms...

 

[DrLeftover]

Hell the leftists if they could would want to regulate what side of the bed I sleep on.

Wouldn't that be something conservatives would be more likely to do, given their penchant for wanting to regulate what goes on in people's' bedrooms...

Neither party has an exclusive on wanting to control the minutia of the ordinary citizen's lives that are, By Definition, none of the Government's business.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Hell the leftists if they could would want to regulate what side of the bed I sleep on.

Wouldn't that be something conservatives would be more likely to do, given their penchant for wanting to regulate what goes on in people's' bedrooms...

No they do not care about the bedroom. But they do care about a life that might be murdered months later from the bedroom.

 

[DrLeftover]

October 24, 2014

The National Science Foundation (NSF) project designed to track “misinformation” on Twitter has removed portions of its website that monitored political users, including conservatives who used the “tcot” hashtag.

“Truthy,” the nearly $1 million research project being conducted by the University of Indiana, has redesigned its website following the Washington Free Beacon’s initial report on the study.

The service is intended to monitor “suspicious memes” and “false and misleading ideas,” with a major focus on political activity online.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/truthy-removes-part-of-website-that-monitored-conservative-hashtags/