Blogging Rights: Kos Takes On The Cause
While normally our views and opinions are diametrically opposed to the Kos, here’s one exception in which we’re on the same side.
AP reports: “Bloggers who built their Internet followings with anti-establishment prose are now lobbying the establishment to protect their livelihoods from federal regulations.
Some are even working with lawyers, public-relations consultants and a political action committee to do it.
“I like to think of myself as just a guy with a blog, but it’s clear that ‘just a guy with a blog’ is different today than it was when I started three years ago,” said Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, founder of the Web log www.DailyKos.com. “One sign of having arrived is when government regulators start wanting to poke their fingers into what you do.”
Moulitsas was to testify Tuesday at a hearing on a Federal Election Commission proposal that would extend some campaign finance rules to the Internet, including bloggers.
Moulitsas also is working with a lawyer who volunteered to help bloggers fight new government regulations and whose efforts were promoted in a PR firm press release Monday. He is prepared to lobby Congress himself if necessary.
Go get ‘em. Just don’t say: Screw ‘em.
UPDATE:
CNET reports: “Mike Krempasky, a conservative activist and contributor to the RedState.org blog, said he hopes the FEC will “ensure that no blogger, no amateur activist and no self-published pundit ever need consult with legal counsel.” The FEC’s 47-page proposed rules, which are not final, cover everything from candidate endorsements to fund-raising, bulk e-mail and paid advertisements.”
June 28th, 2005 at 8:51 pm
Am I missing something here in that the original campaign finance reform bill is fraud? Soros and Pew are said to have contrived the “crisis.” Now they’d like to extend that fraud to regulating free speech that has simply been criticizing them. Why must we forget the “blog” problem would not exist if the rogue law were not made for Soros et. al. benefit in the first place?