{"id":48,"date":"2005-03-03T10:55:35","date_gmt":"2005-03-03T14:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/?p=48"},"modified":"2005-03-03T10:55:35","modified_gmt":"2005-03-03T14:55:35","slug":"gop-on-fec-regulate-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/2005\/03\/03\/gop-on-fec-regulate-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP on FEC: Regulate Blogs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Marketing VOX today, Republicans on FEC: Blogs May Be Regulated<\/a><\/p>\n

I fully support the need for campaign finance reform — the whole situation has become just nuts. But it is a slippery slope (of BS) when you say, as GOP Commissioner Smith did to Cnet:<\/p>\n

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"We’re talking about any decision by an individual to put a link on their home page, set up a blog, send out mass emails, any kind of activity that can be done on the Internet."  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other words, even if you aren’t actually raising or donating money, the actions you take on your blog might be considered a contribution. <\/p>\n

That’s crap, and pretty ridiculous, given this little thing we have called here in the USA called the First Amendment to the Constitution. It will be interesting to see if the GOP really pushes this issue or not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Marketing VOX today, Republicans on FEC: Blogs May Be Regulated I fully support the need for campaign finance reform — the whole situation has become just nuts. But it is a slippery slope (of BS) when you say, as GOP Commissioner Smith did to Cnet: "We’re talking about any decision by an individual to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t