What First Amendment? Dems on FEC move to regulate Internet campaigns, blogs, Drudge

[Mac1958]

And yes, this belongs in Politics, it's about POLITICS.

Why do they want to do this? Democrats know the 1st Amendment is their biggest enemy. It was the biggest enemy of the Nazis, of Stalin, of Mao, of Castro. All despots hate the freedom of speech. It's their biggest enemy.

They MUST have ONLY side of things broadcast.

And Drudge has been following the ebola crisis closely and wouldn't Democrats like to shut that up.

In a surprise [Surprise MY ASS] 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 medialike 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.

Ravel’s statement suggests that she would regulate right-leaning groups like America Risingthat posts anti-Democrat YouTube videos on its website.

FEC Chairman Lee E. Goodman, a Republican, said if regulation extends that far, then anybody who writes a political blog, runs a politically active news site or even chat room could be regulated. He added that funny internet campaigns like “Obama Girl,” and “Jib Jab” would also face regulations.

“I told you this was coming,” he told Secrets. Earlier this year he warned that Democrats on the panel were gunning for conservative Internet sites like the Drudge Report.

(the words in purple above I added)

Dems on FEC move to regulate Internet campaigns blogs Drudge WashingtonExaminer.com

Here we go. Democrats know they are losing power and it's coming from a FREE PRESS, A FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

They don't care, they have to stop that.

They tried to do the same thing with Rush and they keep trying.

Liberals like to pretend they are all for rights and freedom, but the opposite is the case. They hate freedom because freedom includes the freedom to NOT be liberal, not vote for liberals, and not support liberal causes.

THEY DON'T LIKE THAT and they are willing to do anything to stop that.

They will lie, they will defraud the vote, and they will stop anyone from getting the truth out.

We are going to have to yell our heads of about this, Call our Congressman and let Dems know they can't get away with this, otherwise they will.

Freedom's biggest enemy is a populace asleep at the switch.

Democrats are plural, they are individuals and to claim all Democrats think alike is absurd on its face.

That said, as a Democrat '[m opposed to propaganda presented as truth. I want an open exchange of ideas, something the New Right and those you noted above abhor. Drudge, Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Palin, et al, all present one view, one concept as the The Truth and constantly disdain every idea, every person who dares to question their dogma.

Worse they never admit error, a tactic common in totalitarian society (the USSR [Russia], China, N. Korea, Iran, etc.) and place blame on their enemies sans evidence. They rewrite history, epidemic on this message board, and post perfidious threads any thinking, educated and awake person knows to be ridiculous; they repeat lies openly and often until they create pother and take on the false face of truth.

Please read the OP and consider it with my remarks.

Are there any left-leaning sites and networks that do this?

.

 

[Mac1958]

.

Once again, the Left wants to be judge, jury and executioner.

Par for the course.

.

 

[teapartysamurai]

And yes, this belongs in Politics, it's about POLITICS.

Why do they want to do this? Democrats know the 1st Amendment is their biggest enemy. It was the biggest enemy of the Nazis, of Stalin, of Mao, of Castro. All despots hate the freedom of speech. It's their biggest enemy.

They MUST have ONLY side of things broadcast.

And Drudge has been following the ebola crisis closely and wouldn't Democrats like to shut that up.

In a surprise [Surprise MY ASS] 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 medialike 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.

Ravel’s statement suggests that she would regulate right-leaning groups like America Risingthat posts anti-Democrat YouTube videos on its website.

FEC Chairman Lee E. Goodman, a Republican, said if regulation extends that far, then anybody who writes a political blog, runs a politically active news site or even chat room could be regulated. He added that funny internet campaigns like “Obama Girl,” and “Jib Jab” would also face regulations.

“I told you this was coming,” he told Secrets. Earlier this year he warned that Democrats on the panel were gunning for conservative Internet sites like the Drudge Report.

(the words in purple above I added)

Dems on FEC move to regulate Internet campaigns blogs Drudge WashingtonExaminer.com

Here we go. Democrats know they are losing power and it's coming from a FREE PRESS, A FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

They don't care, they have to stop that.

They tried to do the same thing with Rush and they keep trying.

Liberals like to pretend they are all for rights and freedom, but the opposite is the case. They hate freedom because freedom includes the freedom to NOT be liberal, not vote for liberals, and not support liberal causes.

THEY DON'T LIKE THAT and they are willing to do anything to stop that.

They will lie, they will defraud the vote, and they will stop anyone from getting the truth out.

We are going to have to yell our heads of about this, Call our Congressman and let Dems know they can't get away with this, otherwise they will.

Freedom's biggest enemy is a populace asleep at the switch.

Democrats are plural, they are individuals and to claim all Democrats think alike is absurd on its face.

That said, as a Democrat '[m opposed to propaganda presented as truth. I want an open exchange of ideas, something the New Right and those you noted above abhor. Drudge, Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Palin, et al, all present one view, one concept as the The Truth and constantly disdain every idea, every person who dares to question their dogma.

Worse they never admit error, a tactic common in totalitarian society (the USSR [Russia], China, N. Korea, Iran, etc.) and place blame on their enemies sans evidence. They rewrite history, epidemic on this message board, and post perfidious threads any thinking, educated and awake person knows to be ridiculous; they repeat lies openly and often until they create pother and take on the false face of truth.

Please read the OP and consider it with my remarks.

Are there any left-leaning sites and networks that do this?

.

Oh NOT in Wry Catcher's world. They only print "the truth."

You have to understand what a clueless bubble liberals live in.

 

[Moonglow]

And yes, this belongs in Politics, it's about POLITICS.

Why do they want to do this? Democrats know the 1st Amendment is their biggest enemy. It was the biggest enemy of the Nazis, of Stalin, of Mao, of Castro. All despots hate the freedom of speech. It's their biggest enemy.

They MUST have ONLY side of things broadcast.

And Drudge has been following the ebola crisis closely and wouldn't Democrats like to shut that up.

(the words in purple above I added)

Dems on FEC move to regulate Internet campaigns blogs Drudge WashingtonExaminer.com

Here we go. Democrats know they are losing power and it's coming from a FREE PRESS, A FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

They don't care, they have to stop that.

They tried to do the same thing with Rush and they keep trying.

Liberals like to pretend they are all for rights and freedom, but the opposite is the case. They hate freedom because freedom includes the freedom to NOT be liberal, not vote for liberals, and not support liberal causes.

THEY DON'T LIKE THAT and they are willing to do anything to stop that.

They will lie, they will defraud the vote, and they will stop anyone from getting the truth out.

We are going to have to yell our heads of about this, Call our Congressman and let Dems know they can't get away with this, otherwise they will.

Freedom's biggest enemy is a populace asleep at the switch.

Democrats are plural, they are individuals and to claim all Democrats think alike is absurd on its face.

That said, as a Democrat '[m opposed to propaganda presented as truth. I want an open exchange of ideas, something those you noted above abhor. Drudge, Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Palin, et al, all present one view, on concept as the The Truth and constantly disdain every idea, every person who dares to question their dogma.

Worse they never admit error, a tactic common in totalitarian society (the USSR [Russia], China, N. Korea, Iran, etc.) and place blame on their enemies sans evidence. They rewrite history, epidemic on this message board, and post perfidious threads any thinking, educated and awake person knows to be ridiculous; they repeat lies openly and often until they create pother and take on the false face of truth.

Please read the OP and consider it with my remarks.

That still boils down to you only want WHAT YOU THINK IS TRUE to be what's put out.

Whether you think what the other side is put out is the truth or not, THERE IS THIS THING CALLED FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

How would you like it, if I we did that to you Wry. Decided everything you said is BS (which it is) and needs to be "regulated" to make sure only the "truth' is presented.

It's a double edged sword. Once you start regulating what the "truth" is. They will regulate YOU as well.

Progressive KNOW that everything fed into the collective is TRUE! It's right from Big Brother! Anyone who dares to question, must be destroyed

Wry is every bit the frothing Nazi we assumed he was.

A collective, let's see no collectives by the GOP or other rwer's, nope, none at all..
Nothing to see here folks...No progressive on the right either, oh hell no!
And damn sure no liberal right wingers damn it!

Well, when you show me the Tea Party members that want to regulate CNN or MSNBC let me know.

According to their logic, they are part of the system and are guilty of allowing what they do not like...

 

[Wry Catcher]

And yes, this belongs in Politics, it's about POLITICS.

Why do they want to do this? Democrats know the 1st Amendment is their biggest enemy. It was the biggest enemy of the Nazis, of Stalin, of Mao, of Castro. All despots hate the freedom of speech. It's their biggest enemy.

They MUST have ONLY side of things broadcast.

And Drudge has been following the ebola crisis closely and wouldn't Democrats like to shut that up.

In a surprise [Surprise MY ASS] 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 medialike 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.

Ravel’s statement suggests that she would regulate right-leaning groups like America Risingthat posts anti-Democrat YouTube videos on its website.

FEC Chairman Lee E. Goodman, a Republican, said if regulation extends that far, then anybody who writes a political blog, runs a politically active news site or even chat room could be regulated. He added that funny internet campaigns like “Obama Girl,” and “Jib Jab” would also face regulations.

“I told you this was coming,” he told Secrets. Earlier this year he warned that Democrats on the panel were gunning for conservative Internet sites like the Drudge Report.

(the words in purple above I added)

Dems on FEC move to regulate Internet campaigns blogs Drudge WashingtonExaminer.com

Here we go. Democrats know they are losing power and it's coming from a FREE PRESS, A FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

They don't care, they have to stop that.

They tried to do the same thing with Rush and they keep trying.

Liberals like to pretend they are all for rights and freedom, but the opposite is the case. They hate freedom because freedom includes the freedom to NOT be liberal, not vote for liberals, and not support liberal causes.

THEY DON'T LIKE THAT and they are willing to do anything to stop that.

They will lie, they will defraud the vote, and they will stop anyone from getting the truth out.

We are going to have to yell our heads of about this, Call our Congressman and let Dems know they can't get away with this, otherwise they will.

Freedom's biggest enemy is a populace asleep at the switch.

Democrats are plural, they are individuals and to claim all Democrats think alike is absurd on its face.

That said, as a Democrat '[m opposed to propaganda presented as truth. I want an open exchange of ideas, something those you noted above abhor. Drudge, Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Palin, et al, all present one view, on concept as the The Truth and constantly disdain every idea, every person who dares to question their dogma.

Worse they never admit error, a tactic common in totalitarian society (the USSR [Russia], China, N. Korea, Iran, etc.) and place blame on their enemies sans evidence. They rewrite history, epidemic on this message board, and post perfidious threads any thinking, educated and awake person knows to be ridiculous; they repeat lies openly and often until they create pother and take on the false face of truth.

Please read the OP and consider it with my remarks.

That still boils down to you only want WHAT YOU THINK IS TRUE to be what's put out.

Whether you think what the other side is put out is the truth or not, THERE IS THIS THING CALLED FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

How would you like it, if I we did that to you Wry. Decided everything you said is BS (which it is) and needs to be "regulated" to make sure only the "truth' is presented.

It's a double edged sword. Once you start regulating what the "truth" is. They will regulate YOU as well.

I never offered "The Truth", unless of course you feel my disdain for propaganda is a "Truth". Which in some abstract manner is likely true, but much different than someone claiming the current administration is a tyranny.

 

[teapartysamurai]

Democrats are plural, they are individuals and to claim all Democrats think alike is absurd on its face.

That said, as a Democrat '[m opposed to propaganda presented as truth. I want an open exchange of ideas, something those you noted above abhor. Drudge, Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Palin, et al, all present one view, on concept as the The Truth and constantly disdain every idea, every person who dares to question their dogma.

Worse they never admit error, a tactic common in totalitarian society (the USSR [Russia], China, N. Korea, Iran, etc.) and place blame on their enemies sans evidence. They rewrite history, epidemic on this message board, and post perfidious threads any thinking, educated and awake person knows to be ridiculous; they repeat lies openly and often until they create pother and take on the false face of truth.

Please read the OP and consider it with my remarks.

That still boils down to you only want WHAT YOU THINK IS TRUE to be what's put out.

Whether you think what the other side is put out is the truth or not, THERE IS THIS THING CALLED FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

How would you like it, if I we did that to you Wry. Decided everything you said is BS (which it is) and needs to be "regulated" to make sure only the "truth' is presented.

It's a double edged sword. Once you start regulating what the "truth" is. They will regulate YOU as well.

Progressive KNOW that everything fed into the collective is TRUE! It's right from Big Brother! Anyone who dares to question, must be destroyed

Wry is every bit the frothing Nazi we assumed he was.

A collective, let's see no collectives by the GOP or other rwer's, nope, none at all..
Nothing to see here folks...No progressive on the right either, oh hell no!
And damn sure no liberal right wingers damn it!

Well, when you show me the Tea Party members that want to regulate CNN or MSNBC let me know.

According to their logic, they are part of the system and are guilty of allowing what they do not like...

Like I said. When you are me, I bet you could make that sentence actually make sense.

 

[teapartysamurai]

And yes, this belongs in Politics, it's about POLITICS.

Why do they want to do this? Democrats know the 1st Amendment is their biggest enemy. It was the biggest enemy of the Nazis, of Stalin, of Mao, of Castro. All despots hate the freedom of speech. It's their biggest enemy.

They MUST have ONLY side of things broadcast.

And Drudge has been following the ebola crisis closely and wouldn't Democrats like to shut that up.

In a surprise [Surprise MY ASS] 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 medialike 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.

Ravel’s statement suggests that she would regulate right-leaning groups like America Risingthat posts anti-Democrat YouTube videos on its website.

FEC Chairman Lee E. Goodman, a Republican, said if regulation extends that far, then anybody who writes a political blog, runs a politically active news site or even chat room could be regulated. He added that funny internet campaigns like “Obama Girl,” and “Jib Jab” would also face regulations.

“I told you this was coming,” he told Secrets. Earlier this year he warned that Democrats on the panel were gunning for conservative Internet sites like the Drudge Report.

(the words in purple above I added)

Dems on FEC move to regulate Internet campaigns blogs Drudge WashingtonExaminer.com

Here we go. Democrats know they are losing power and it's coming from a FREE PRESS, A FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

They don't care, they have to stop that.

They tried to do the same thing with Rush and they keep trying.

Liberals like to pretend they are all for rights and freedom, but the opposite is the case. They hate freedom because freedom includes the freedom to NOT be liberal, not vote for liberals, and not support liberal causes.

THEY DON'T LIKE THAT and they are willing to do anything to stop that.

They will lie, they will defraud the vote, and they will stop anyone from getting the truth out.

We are going to have to yell our heads of about this, Call our Congressman and let Dems know they can't get away with this, otherwise they will.

Freedom's biggest enemy is a populace asleep at the switch.

Democrats are plural, they are individuals and to claim all Democrats think alike is absurd on its face.

That said, as a Democrat '[m opposed to propaganda presented as truth. I want an open exchange of ideas, something those you noted above abhor. Drudge, Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Palin, et al, all present one view, on concept as the The Truth and constantly disdain every idea, every person who dares to question their dogma.

Worse they never admit error, a tactic common in totalitarian society (the USSR [Russia], China, N. Korea, Iran, etc.) and place blame on their enemies sans evidence. They rewrite history, epidemic on this message board, and post perfidious threads any thinking, educated and awake person knows to be ridiculous; they repeat lies openly and often until they create pother and take on the false face of truth.

Please read the OP and consider it with my remarks.

That still boils down to you only want WHAT YOU THINK IS TRUE to be what's put out.

Whether you think what the other side is put out is the truth or not, THERE IS THIS THING CALLED FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

How would you like it, if I we did that to you Wry. Decided everything you said is BS (which it is) and needs to be "regulated" to make sure only the "truth' is presented.

It's a double edged sword. Once you start regulating what the "truth" is. They will regulate YOU as well.

I never offered "The Truth", unless of course you feel my disdain for propaganda is a "Truth". Which in some abstract manner is likely true, but much different than someone claiming the current administration is a tyranny.

Which is double talk for, it's STILL only okay to say what I say.

 

[Wry Catcher]

And yes, this belongs in Politics, it's about POLITICS.

Why do they want to do this? Democrats know the 1st Amendment is their biggest enemy. It was the biggest enemy of the Nazis, of Stalin, of Mao, of Castro. All despots hate the freedom of speech. It's their biggest enemy.

They MUST have ONLY side of things broadcast.

And Drudge has been following the ebola crisis closely and wouldn't Democrats like to shut that up.

In a surprise [Surprise MY ASS] 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 medialike 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.

Ravel’s statement suggests that she would regulate right-leaning groups like America Risingthat posts anti-Democrat YouTube videos on its website.

FEC Chairman Lee E. Goodman, a Republican, said if regulation extends that far, then anybody who writes a political blog, runs a politically active news site or even chat room could be regulated. He added that funny internet campaigns like “Obama Girl,” and “Jib Jab” would also face regulations.

“I told you this was coming,” he told Secrets. Earlier this year he warned that Democrats on the panel were gunning for conservative Internet sites like the Drudge Report.

(the words in purple above I added)

Dems on FEC move to regulate Internet campaigns blogs Drudge WashingtonExaminer.com

Here we go. Democrats know they are losing power and it's coming from a FREE PRESS, A FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

They don't care, they have to stop that.

They tried to do the same thing with Rush and they keep trying.

Liberals like to pretend they are all for rights and freedom, but the opposite is the case. They hate freedom because freedom includes the freedom to NOT be liberal, not vote for liberals, and not support liberal causes.

THEY DON'T LIKE THAT and they are willing to do anything to stop that.

They will lie, they will defraud the vote, and they will stop anyone from getting the truth out.

We are going to have to yell our heads of about this, Call our Congressman and let Dems know they can't get away with this, otherwise they will.

Freedom's biggest enemy is a populace asleep at the switch.

Democrats are plural, they are individuals and to claim all Democrats think alike is absurd on its face.

That said, as a Democrat '[m opposed to propaganda presented as truth. I want an open exchange of ideas, something the New Right and those you noted above abhor. Drudge, Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Palin, et al, all present one view, one concept as the The Truth and constantly disdain every idea, every person who dares to question their dogma.

Worse they never admit error, a tactic common in totalitarian society (the USSR [Russia], China, N. Korea, Iran, etc.) and place blame on their enemies sans evidence. They rewrite history, epidemic on this message board, and post perfidious threads any thinking, educated and awake person knows to be ridiculous; they repeat lies openly and often until they create pother and take on the false face of truth.

Please read the OP and consider it with my remarks.

Are there any left-leaning sites and networks that do this?

.

Oh NOT in Wry Catcher's world. They only print "the truth."

You have to understand what a clueless bubble liberals live in.

Here's a truth. Some pols and talking heads are more duplicitous than others; some lie, some use half-truths, lie by omission, use hyperbole, rumor and inuenndo all to fool the people. And some posters are no different, but most of them are simple parrots.

 

[teapartysamurai]

And yes, this belongs in Politics, it's about POLITICS.

Why do they want to do this? Democrats know the 1st Amendment is their biggest enemy. It was the biggest enemy of the Nazis, of Stalin, of Mao, of Castro. All despots hate the freedom of speech. It's their biggest enemy.

They MUST have ONLY side of things broadcast.

And Drudge has been following the ebola crisis closely and wouldn't Democrats like to shut that up.

In a surprise [Surprise MY ASS] 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 medialike 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.

Ravel’s statement suggests that she would regulate right-leaning groups like America Risingthat posts anti-Democrat YouTube videos on its website.

FEC Chairman Lee E. Goodman, a Republican, said if regulation extends that far, then anybody who writes a political blog, runs a politically active news site or even chat room could be regulated. He added that funny internet campaigns like “Obama Girl,” and “Jib Jab” would also face regulations.

“I told you this was coming,” he told Secrets. Earlier this year he warned that Democrats on the panel were gunning for conservative Internet sites like the Drudge Report.

(the words in purple above I added)

Dems on FEC move to regulate Internet campaigns blogs Drudge WashingtonExaminer.com

Here we go. Democrats know they are losing power and it's coming from a FREE PRESS, A FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

They don't care, they have to stop that.

They tried to do the same thing with Rush and they keep trying.

Liberals like to pretend they are all for rights and freedom, but the opposite is the case. They hate freedom because freedom includes the freedom to NOT be liberal, not vote for liberals, and not support liberal causes.

THEY DON'T LIKE THAT and they are willing to do anything to stop that.

They will lie, they will defraud the vote, and they will stop anyone from getting the truth out.

We are going to have to yell our heads of about this, Call our Congressman and let Dems know they can't get away with this, otherwise they will.

Freedom's biggest enemy is a populace asleep at the switch.

Democrats are plural, they are individuals and to claim all Democrats think alike is absurd on its face.

That said, as a Democrat '[m opposed to propaganda presented as truth. I want an open exchange of ideas, something the New Right and those you noted above abhor. Drudge, Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Palin, et al, all present one view, one concept as the The Truth and constantly disdain every idea, every person who dares to question their dogma.

Worse they never admit error, a tactic common in totalitarian society (the USSR [Russia], China, N. Korea, Iran, etc.) and place blame on their enemies sans evidence. They rewrite history, epidemic on this message board, and post perfidious threads any thinking, educated and awake person knows to be ridiculous; they repeat lies openly and often until they create pother and take on the false face of truth.

Please read the OP and consider it with my remarks.

Are there any left-leaning sites and networks that do this?

.

Oh NOT in Wry Catcher's world. They only print "the truth."

You have to understand what a clueless bubble liberals live in.

Here's a truth. Some pols and talking heads are more duplicitous than others; some lie, some use half-truths, lie by omission, use hyperbole, rumor and inuenndo all to fool the people. And some posters are no different, but most of them are simple parrots.

Even if that's true, does that mean they need be "regulated." And just WHO decides what is the truth and what isn't?

 

[Wry Catcher]

And yes, this belongs in Politics, it's about POLITICS.

Why do they want to do this? Democrats know the 1st Amendment is their biggest enemy. It was the biggest enemy of the Nazis, of Stalin, of Mao, of Castro. All despots hate the freedom of speech. It's their biggest enemy.

They MUST have ONLY side of things broadcast.

And Drudge has been following the ebola crisis closely and wouldn't Democrats like to shut that up.

In a surprise [Surprise MY ASS] 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 medialike 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.

Ravel’s statement suggests that she would regulate right-leaning groups like America Risingthat posts anti-Democrat YouTube videos on its website.

FEC Chairman Lee E. Goodman, a Republican, said if regulation extends that far, then anybody who writes a political blog, runs a politically active news site or even chat room could be regulated. He added that funny internet campaigns like “Obama Girl,” and “Jib Jab” would also face regulations.

“I told you this was coming,” he told Secrets. Earlier this year he warned that Democrats on the panel were gunning for conservative Internet sites like the Drudge Report.

(the words in purple above I added)

Dems on FEC move to regulate Internet campaigns blogs Drudge WashingtonExaminer.com

Here we go. Democrats know they are losing power and it's coming from a FREE PRESS, A FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

They don't care, they have to stop that.

They tried to do the same thing with Rush and they keep trying.

Liberals like to pretend they are all for rights and freedom, but the opposite is the case. They hate freedom because freedom includes the freedom to NOT be liberal, not vote for liberals, and not support liberal causes.

THEY DON'T LIKE THAT and they are willing to do anything to stop that.

They will lie, they will defraud the vote, and they will stop anyone from getting the truth out.

We are going to have to yell our heads of about this, Call our Congressman and let Dems know they can't get away with this, otherwise they will.

Freedom's biggest enemy is a populace asleep at the switch.

Democrats are plural, they are individuals and to claim all Democrats think alike is absurd on its face.

That said, as a Democrat '[m opposed to propaganda presented as truth. I want an open exchange of ideas, something those you noted above abhor. Drudge, Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Palin, et al, all present one view, on concept as the The Truth and constantly disdain every idea, every person who dares to question their dogma.

Worse they never admit error, a tactic common in totalitarian society (the USSR [Russia], China, N. Korea, Iran, etc.) and place blame on their enemies sans evidence. They rewrite history, epidemic on this message board, and post perfidious threads any thinking, educated and awake person knows to be ridiculous; they repeat lies openly and often until they create pother and take on the false face of truth.

Please read the OP and consider it with my remarks.

That still boils down to you only want WHAT YOU THINK IS TRUE to be what's put out.

Whether you think what the other side is put out is the truth or not, THERE IS THIS THING CALLED FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

How would you like it, if I we did that to you Wry. Decided everything you said is BS (which it is) and needs to be "regulated" to make sure only the "truth' is presented.

It's a double edged sword. Once you start regulating what the "truth" is. They will regulate YOU as well.

I never offered "The Truth", unless of course you feel my disdain for propaganda is a "Truth". Which in some abstract manner is likely true, but much different than someone claiming the current administration is a tyranny.

Which is double talk for, it's STILL only okay to say what I say.

Here's another truth, trying to discuss anything with you is like reading a novel by Kafka. So there is no concern that my final remark to you is double talk, I'll be clear:

Fuck you. Keep being an asshole and pretend you have something important or substantive to post.

 

[Care4all]

What are these regulations that are presently out side of the internet, that people are in ''fear'' of if added to the internet....?

Shouldn't we be advised by this supposed news source on what these regulations are...or at least give us a link to them? Journalism has gone to crud.....

It's called read the link at the op!

(Geesh)

Geez back at ya...

I READ THE LINK....

WHAT do these regulations entail? What ARE the regulations? What do these regulations cover and say? What IS IN these regulations that upsets you?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

What are these regulations that are presently out side of the internet, that people are in ''fear'' of if added to the internet....?

Shouldn't we be advised by this supposed news source on what these regulations are...or at least give us a link to them? Journalism has gone to crud.....

It's called read the link at the op!

(Geesh)

Geez back at ya...

I READ THE LINK....

WHAT do these regulations entail? What ARE the regulations? What do these regulations cover and say? What IS IN these regulations that upsets you?

Most on the partisan right aren't interested in facts or the truth, they're only interested in contriving and propagating lies such as this one.

 

[Mustang]

And yes, this belongs in Politics, it's about POLITICS.

Why do they want to do this? Democrats know the 1st Amendment is their biggest enemy. It was the biggest enemy of the Nazis, of Stalin, of Mao, of Castro. All despots hate the freedom of speech. It's their biggest enemy.

They MUST have ONLY side of things broadcast.

And Drudge has been following the ebola crisis closely and wouldn't Democrats like to shut that up.

In a surprise [Surprise MY ASS] 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 medialike 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.

Ravel’s statement suggests that she would regulate right-leaning groups like America Risingthat posts anti-Democrat YouTube videos on its website.

FEC Chairman Lee E. Goodman, a Republican, said if regulation extends that far, then anybody who writes a political blog, runs a politically active news site or even chat room could be regulated. He added that funny internet campaigns like “Obama Girl,” and “Jib Jab” would also face regulations.

“I told you this was coming,” he told Secrets. Earlier this year he warned that Democrats on the panel were gunning for conservative Internet sites like the Drudge Report.

(the words in purple above I added)

Dems on FEC move to regulate Internet campaigns blogs Drudge WashingtonExaminer.com

Here we go. Democrats know they are losing power and it's coming from a FREE PRESS, A FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

They don't care, they have to stop that.

They tried to do the same thing with Rush and they keep trying.

Liberals like to pretend they are all for rights and freedom, but the opposite is the case. They hate freedom because freedom includes the freedom to NOT be liberal, not vote for liberals, and not support liberal causes.

THEY DON'T LIKE THAT and they are willing to do anything to stop that.

They will lie, they will defraud the vote, and they will stop anyone from getting the truth out.

We are going to have to yell our heads of about this, Call our Congressman and let Dems know they can't get away with this, otherwise they will.

Freedom's biggest enemy is a populace asleep at the switch.

There's a funny thing about laws. It's actually about people and their behavior. Let me give an example.

If nobody ever abused alcohol, or, for that matter, if nobody ever drove a car TOO fast, it's quite possible that there would be no need to have laws against drunk driving and/or no need to have a posted speed limit. But you know what would happen at some point? Someone might very well decide to get drunk and drive too fast simply BECAUSE there are no laws against doing so. So, if there were no laws against public intoxication, you might very well see a LOT more people drunk in public. The point is that human behavior often is the driving force behind laws.

In this particular case, many of the things that would be impermissible on TV or radio (both of which are licensed), is not against the law on the Internet simply because laws almost always lag behind technological advancement. So, what happens as a result? People flock to the Internet to engage in activities that they could not get away with on TV or radio. In such cases, it's only a question of time until the Internet is brought under the same laws as other media. And probably 99% of the time, it's because some people decided to step over a line simply because they knew it was not yet illegal to do so.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

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

And here is the lie.

The FEC is not 'moving' to regulate anything of the sort.

 

[Silhouette]

...Liberals like to pretend they are all for rights and freedom, but the opposite is the case. They hate freedom because freedom includes the freedom to NOT be liberal, not vote for liberals, and not support liberal causes.

THEY DON'T LIKE THAT and they are willing to do anything to stop that.

They will lie, they will defraud the vote, and they will stop anyone from getting the truth out...

This website would fall under those new gag rules, yes?

But don't worry. It will still be perfectly legal to do lewd sex acts in front of kids in a pride parade on a public thoroughfare with police looking on doing nothing. Freedom of expression will not be squelched completely...

 

[Plasmaball]

Progressives are Fascists

Deep

 

[Mac1958]

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

And here is the lie.

The FEC is not 'moving' to regulate anything of the sort.

That's not what the story is saying.

It says "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".

Straw man.

.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

And yes, this belongs in Politics, it's about POLITICS.

Why do they want to do this? Democrats know the 1st Amendment is their biggest enemy. It was the biggest enemy of the Nazis, of Stalin, of Mao, of Castro. All despots hate the freedom of speech. It's their biggest enemy.

They MUST have ONLY side of things broadcast.

And Drudge has been following the ebola crisis closely and wouldn't Democrats like to shut that up.

In a surprise [Surprise MY ASS] 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 medialike 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.

Ravel’s statement suggests that she would regulate right-leaning groups like America Risingthat posts anti-Democrat YouTube videos on its website.

FEC Chairman Lee E. Goodman, a Republican, said if regulation extends that far, then anybody who writes a political blog, runs a politically active news site or even chat room could be regulated. He added that funny internet campaigns like “Obama Girl,” and “Jib Jab” would also face regulations.

“I told you this was coming,” he told Secrets. Earlier this year he warned that Democrats on the panel were gunning for conservative Internet sites like the Drudge Report.

(the words in purple above I added)

Dems on FEC move to regulate Internet campaigns blogs Drudge WashingtonExaminer.com

Here we go. Democrats know they are losing power and it's coming from a FREE PRESS, A FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

They don't care, they have to stop that.

They tried to do the same thing with Rush and they keep trying.

Liberals like to pretend they are all for rights and freedom, but the opposite is the case. They hate freedom because freedom includes the freedom to NOT be liberal, not vote for liberals, and not support liberal causes.

THEY DON'T LIKE THAT and they are willing to do anything to stop that.

They will lie, they will defraud the vote, and they will stop anyone from getting the truth out.

We are going to have to yell our heads of about this, Call our Congressman and let Dems know they can't get away with this, otherwise they will.

Freedom's biggest enemy is a populace asleep at the switch.

Democrats are plural, they are individuals and to claim all Democrats think alike is absurd on its face.

That said, as a Democrat '[m opposed to propaganda presented as truth. I want an open exchange of ideas, something the New Right and those you noted above abhor. Drudge, Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Palin, et al, all present one view, one concept as the The Truth and constantly disdain every idea, every person who dares to question their dogma.

Worse they never admit error, a tactic common in totalitarian society (the USSR [Russia], China, N. Korea, Iran, etc.) and place blame on their enemies sans evidence. They rewrite history, epidemic on this message board, and post perfidious threads any thinking, educated and awake person knows to be ridiculous; they repeat lies openly and often until they create pother and take on the false face of truth.

Please read the OP and consider it with my remarks.

Are there any left-leaning sites and networks that do this?

.

Oh NOT in Wry Catcher's world. They only print "the truth."

You have to understand what a clueless bubble liberals live in.

Here's a truth. Some pols and talking heads are more duplicitous than others; some lie, some use half-truths, lie by omission, use hyperbole, rumor and inuenndo all to fool the people. And some posters are no different, but most of them are simple parrots.

Don't like it, don't watch, Josef.

I haven't watched a single episode of your main news sources: Stewart, Colbert and Maddow, I just don't give a fuck what you listen to. But because you're a Nazi busybody who thinks we owe you, that we NEED your brilliant insight, that you and ONLY YOU HAVE to run our lives you want to silence the opposition.

Fucking Nazi

 

[CrusaderFrank]

And yes, this belongs in Politics, it's about POLITICS.

Why do they want to do this? Democrats know the 1st Amendment is their biggest enemy. It was the biggest enemy of the Nazis, of Stalin, of Mao, of Castro. All despots hate the freedom of speech. It's their biggest enemy.

They MUST have ONLY side of things broadcast.

And Drudge has been following the ebola crisis closely and wouldn't Democrats like to shut that up.

In a surprise [Surprise MY ASS] 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 medialike 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.

Ravel’s statement suggests that she would regulate right-leaning groups like America Risingthat posts anti-Democrat YouTube videos on its website.

FEC Chairman Lee E. Goodman, a Republican, said if regulation extends that far, then anybody who writes a political blog, runs a politically active news site or even chat room could be regulated. He added that funny internet campaigns like “Obama Girl,” and “Jib Jab” would also face regulations.

“I told you this was coming,” he told Secrets. Earlier this year he warned that Democrats on the panel were gunning for conservative Internet sites like the Drudge Report.

(the words in purple above I added)

Dems on FEC move to regulate Internet campaigns blogs Drudge WashingtonExaminer.com

Here we go. Democrats know they are losing power and it's coming from a FREE PRESS, A FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

They don't care, they have to stop that.

They tried to do the same thing with Rush and they keep trying.

Liberals like to pretend they are all for rights and freedom, but the opposite is the case. They hate freedom because freedom includes the freedom to NOT be liberal, not vote for liberals, and not support liberal causes.

THEY DON'T LIKE THAT and they are willing to do anything to stop that.

They will lie, they will defraud the vote, and they will stop anyone from getting the truth out.

We are going to have to yell our heads of about this, Call our Congressman and let Dems know they can't get away with this, otherwise they will.

Freedom's biggest enemy is a populace asleep at the switch.

There's a funny thing about laws. It's actually about people and their behavior. Let me give an example.

If nobody ever abused alcohol, or, for that matter, if nobody ever drove a car TOO fast, it's quite possible that there would be no need to have laws against drunk driving and/or no need to have a posted speed limit. But you know what would happen at some point? Someone might very well decide to get drunk and drive too fast simply BECAUSE there are no laws against doing so. So, if there were no laws against public intoxication, you might very well see a LOT more people drunk in public. The point is that human behavior often is the driving force behind laws.

In this particular case, many of the things that would be impermissible on TV or radio (both of which are licensed), is not against the law on the Internet simply because laws almost always lag behind technological advancement. So, what happens as a result? People flock to the Internet to engage in activities that they could not get away with on TV or radio. In such cases, it's only a question of time until the Internet is brought under the same laws as other media. And probably 99% of the time, it's because some people decided to step over a line simply because they knew it was not yet illegal to do so.

^ Fucking Nazi

 

[Plasmaball]

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

And here is the lie.

The FEC is not 'moving' to regulate anything of the sort.

That's not what the story is saying.

It says "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".

Straw man.

.

Win process....meaning she stated an opinion and these dumbasses are loosing their shit over a process.