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FEC Chairman Unsettles Bloggers With Talk Of Online Regulation
by Shankar Gupta
FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSIONER SCOTT THOMAS unnerved
some prominent bloggers last Friday when he spoke publicly at a
conference at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. about
the agency's plans for regulating political donations online. While the
media is generally exempt from regulation under campaign finance laws,
Thomas indicated that the agency might nonetheless regulate
expenditures to blogs and some online publications. "We have shown at
the FEC a willingness to extend the media exemption to some
Internet-based news services. But this media exception inquiry will go
to the question of: 'What is a periodical publication?' and 'What is a
legitimate press function?' It will also get into: 'What is
news?'...'What is commentary?'...'What is editorial content?'" said
Thomas, according to a transcript of his remarks posted at the blog
RedState.org.
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