Comments on: Creating Two Classes of Citizens

By: the lexfiles

the lexfiles — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:46:51 +0000

Congress shall make no law…

I did lunch last Friday with Our Friend Faisal. Among the various topics of discussion was the FEC request for input on whether or not and if so how to regulate the online speech of bloggers, and whether they should

By: byrd

byrd — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:06:16 +0000

When I went in to law school, I had very little respect for the Supreme Court. When I came out, I had none at all.

The first amendment was about the only thing they did a decent job on. Now they don't even have that going for them.

By: Carnal Reason

Carnal Reason — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:16:17 +0000

Screw the FEC

The Federal Election Commission has been making noises about regulating political speech on blogs. Coyote Blog gets it right:
These past few weeks, we have been debating whether this media exemption from speech restrictions should be extended to blog…

By: Modulator

Modulator — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 02:38:04 +0000

Federal Election Commission Rulemaking

Well, there certainly has been a lot of electrons spilt over some proposed rulemaking by the FEC. You can find many, many more without looking very hard. An excellent evaluation of the whole fiasco comes from the Coyote Blog:I have come to the conclusi…

By: Catallarchy

Catallarchy — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 00:32:19 +0000

The real argument on free speech for bloggers

The excellent Coyote Blog cuts through the crap on the issue of whether bloggers should have the same speech protection as MSM with this great point:

I have come to the conclusion that arguing over who gets the media exemption is like arguing about …

By: BridgetB

BridgetB — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 22:47:53 +0000

The qualifying word should be ‘individual.’