FCC to Censor Blogs
Slashdot now has an article on what may be the death of the blog. The FCC wants to begin regulating political speech on blogs as campaign contributions. Their regulation will "include any communication over the Internet by means of mail, text, or voice messages where the communication consists of more than 500 messages of an identical or substantively similar nature transmitted within any 30-day period." Although 500 might sound like a lot, once everyone has refreshed their friends pages a few times, the message will have been passed back and forth a huge number of times, even more should it be posted to a forum or community.
This clearly treads on the first ammendment, telling people that they cannot even speak freely on the vast internet. Now that they have failed to hurt the porn industry, soft money advertising, or campaign contributions, I guess the FCC has decided to find someone they can pick on.
This clearly treads on the first ammendment, telling people that they cannot even speak freely on the vast internet. Now that they have failed to hurt the porn industry, soft money advertising, or campaign contributions, I guess the FCC has decided to find someone they can pick on.