A bill to keep the internet free.

[MODU]

I would have to oppose this bill.  Official communication made by/on behalf of the candidate online should fall under the same requirements as the rest of the media.  This isn't a free speech issue, but rather another ploy to get around the campaign election laws.

[MODU]

I'm sure we've discussed this exact amendment before, but anyway, here we go again.

This is what they are wanting to change:

(22) Public communication.— The term “public communication” means a communication by means of any broadcast, cable, or satellite communication, newspaper, magazine, outdoor advertising facility, mass mailing, or telephone bank to the general public, or any other form of general public political advertising.

The amendment would exempt the internet from public communications, which would allow the candidates to go through third-party sources to push their campaign message, but not record it as part of their expenditures.  Where as they would have to account for their advertising expenses for every other form of media, they are trying to giving the internet a special status in order to bypass the campaign finance regulations under the FEC and follow-on Acts. 

This has nothing to do with "free speech" (unless you are defining "free" as in not having to pay anything) and everything to do with politicians trying to cheat the system . . . AGAIN.

[MODU]

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HAHAHA . . . Wow, talk about a desperate attempt . . . right in the first sentence!