How thankful we must all be to the feds for cracking down on their own corruption by censoring the people, most especially under the current administration, whose figurehead once eschewed "campaign finance reform" only to come around to favor it and want even more than we have.
The next casualty in the perpetual crusade to stamp out political corruption might be the wonderfully unregulated blogosphere. Declan McCullagh reports:
"Bradley Smith says that the freewheeling days of political blogging and online punditry are over. In just a few months, he warns, bloggers and news organizations could risk the wrath of the federal government if they improperly link to a campaign's Web site. Even forwarding a political candidate's press release to a mailing list, depending on the details, could be punished by fines.
"Smith should know. He's one of the six commissioners at the Federal Election Commission, which is beginning the perilous process of extending a controversial 2002 campaign finance law to the Internet."
Thank goodness. We wouldn't want bloggers to express their electoral preferences and thus slip through the pesky legal loophole known as the First Amendment. (Thanks to Aaron Ginn for the link.)
