Julie with a B

Wednesday, March 23, 2005
 
FEC ruling and Bloggers
The Democracy Project has the text of the ruling and a good discussion of what it might mean for us.
"A preliminary reading of the document indicates that communication about candidates via blogs or emails will not be considered a "public communication," and so will not be considered an in-kind contribution to that candidate."

However:
"So what happens if an employee engages in something more than incidental use of corporate facilities? Does this constitute a “public communication” under the proposed rules? Will the corporation be fined or subject to criminal penalties for nondisclosure of such activity? By only excluding Internet activities that occur in "public facilities", or in one's residence, corporations may be subject to monitoring and banning any sort of blogging by employees on the premises. Considering that most blogs are read during the workday, this could be a particularly heinous limit on free speech."

Read the whole article and note that they have a link to the entire FEC document.

h/t to Pirate's Cove

- posted by JulieB @ 11:40 PM
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