Democrats Defeat Online FOS Act

not so anonymous writes "The Online Freedom of Speech Act was defeated in the House of Representatives yesterday. The Act would have immunized political bloggers from having to comply with hundreds of pages of FEC rules." From the article: "In an acrimonious debate that broke largely along party lines, more than three-quarters of congressional Democrats voted to oppose the reform bill, which had enjoyed wide support from online activists and Web commentators worried about having to comply with a tangled skein of rules. The vote tally in the House of Representatives, 225 to 182, was not enough to send the Online Freedom of Speech Act to the Senate. Under the rules that House leaders adopted to accelerate the process, a two-thirds supermajority was required."

Question for the poster...

[pdo400]

...were you paid to submit this here?

Re:It's not just blogging!

[Anonymous Coward]

That means it would be perfectly legal for a political party to use campaign donations to hire people to write political blogs that they might not otherwise have written on their own time, initiative, and opinions. That means hiring people to comment on message boards and other people's blogs.

You mean like MoveOn.org does already?

Re:Lovely Omission

[soulsteal]

So you're saying this article should have gone on backSlashdot?

Re:Lovely Omission

[stlhawkeye]

It's pretty disturbing that such an obviously slanted article summary was posted here without the editors even bothering to check the facts.

Yes. It's always very disturbing that Slashdot article summaries contain clear political slants. At least, it's disturbing when the slant is biased against whatever political cults I happen to agree with. When it's slanted in their favor, it's just good journalism.

Epiphany

[Marko DeBeeste]

FIRE IN A CROWDED THEATRE!!

There. I said it. Come get me.

Re:IT'S NOT ABOUT PROTECTING FREE SPEECH

[pi_rules]

If Orwell were alive, he'd be rolling in his grave.

If Orwell were alive, he wouldn't be in a grave.

If '/' leans right, why does /. lean left?

[tepples]

/. and it's posters lean so far left

Then why isn't it called "\." ?

not even Fox?

[griffjon]

They even say that they're fair and balanced.

Fox wouldn't LIE to me, would it??