Comments on: McCain-Feingold Comes To Blogging?

By: Jared Bridges

Jared Bridges — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 20:27:01 +0000

Greg,

I’d hardly say that a statement from a pro McCain-Feingold closes the book on the matter.

While a prohibition on political blogging would indeed be difficult to imagine, free-speech-suppressing laws like McCain-Feingold always have inherent dangers. Exception after exception needs to be made. I’m blogging about it to make sure that the exceptions are made in the case of blogging.

By: greg

greg — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 19:12:36 +0000

Now that this has turned out to be just another fairy tale, it’s not as much fun to blog, is it? I guess that’s why you haven’t posted the statement from the Campaign Legal Center.

By: Blind Mind's Eye

Blind Mind's Eye — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 05:15:10 +0000

I told everyone it would happen

Back in September, I posted something of a rebuttal to Joe Carter’s list of things that blogging will impact. I said that this year would make the year that blogging would become regulated by the FEC under the McCain-Feingold campaign…

By: Blind Mind's Eye

Blind Mind's Eye — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:43:47 +0000

I told everyone it would happen

By: Pajama Hadin

Pajama Hadin — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:57:03 +0000

The Coming Crackdown on Blogging

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 campa…