All This Is That: Federal Election Commission Blog Crackdown

Monday, June 13, 2005

Federal Election Commission Blog Crackdown

The proposed new FEC regulations on blogs seek to apply federal campaign finance rules to online publications.

This could affect any blog with content about U.S. politics (which includes this blog). Among the Federal Elections Commission proposals:

Mandatory disclaimers on political blogs
Team blogs must register as a "political committee"
Bloggers to file campaign expenditure reports

Click on the title of this posting to read the proposed FEC rules.
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