The Federal Election Commission seems to feel that the blogging community has too much power, may threaten democracy itself and is looking into policing them.
With all due respect, the FEC can go kiss off.
They ought to keep their noses out of the blog community and get their act together on conducting elections. The last several elections have proven that they aren’t doing their JOBS well enough and they want to lock horns with people who use their Internet space to express their political viewpoints?
Is our own FEC going to follow the example of Iran and China and begin to jail people who dare to express their own opinion that may differ from the official government stand?
This is the essence of democracy itself. Campaign finance reforms have nothing to do with the blogging community, so the FEC ought to target politicians who break finance laws and leave the bloggers alone.
Who’s more guilty, the politician (who knows he’s breaking rules) who pays $35,000 to two bloggers to promote his viewpoints, or the two bloggers who took the money as a payment for services rendered?
Bloggers are not journalists. Well, some are and work for news networks, but 99.8% of the others don’t. Every major news organization has at least one reporter writing in blogs; with some it seems like every reporter has their own blog space on the company’s server.
The FEC has a job to do; they should do it and stay out of First Amendment territory. If they want to regulate political campaigns and official campaign blogs, that’s one thing, but to lump all blogs together is asking for trouble.
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