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#1 2005-03-27 5:10 pm
- mr. penguin
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#2 2005-03-27 8:57 pm
- charon
- doesn't make change
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Re: will mccain-feingold hurt bloggers?
Probably not until the next presidential election. Then I'm worried. Blogs are only going to get more influential and more money will be spent on them as time goes on, so that strengthens the rationale for regulating them. It also strengthens the incentive for politicians to use campaign finance laws to silence the blogging political opposition.
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#3 2005-03-27 9:36 pm
- Warin
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Re: will mccain-feingold hurt bloggers?
How can you regulate a blog? Try, and someone will open a server on some little flyspeck somewhere that cant be regulated by American laws. Then people can blog to their hearts content. Blogging is, at its heart, a direct representation of freedom of speech. Anyone can do it, and anyone can say pretty much whatever they want.
Want I find amazing is that anyone takes bloggers seriously. I mean come on, these guys are essentially a microcosm of lunacy. Most of the most popular bloggers seem to be lunatics, or at the very least on the lunatic fringe.
How on earth would you manage to regulate it??
From what I can tell, either way, you're screwed. Bad people are punished by society's laws, and good people are punished by Murphy's Law.
-- George, Dead Like Me
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#4 2005-03-27 11:30 pm
- charon
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Re: will mccain-feingold hurt bloggers?
Warin wrote:
How on earth would you manage to regulate it??
One very effective way would be to go arrest the law-breaking blogger. The most influential bloggers, I think, are not anonymous (e.g., Andrew Sullivan, Markos Zuniga of Daily Kos) and it's quite a burden upon blogging to have to remain anonymous for fear of prosecution.
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#5 2005-03-28 4:59 pm
- delta wolph
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Re: will mccain-feingold hurt bloggers?
Warin wrote:
Want I find amazing is that anyone takes bloggers seriously. I mean come on, these guys are essentially a microcosm of lunacy. Most of the most popular bloggers seem to be lunatics, or at the very least on the lunatic fringe.
Hey my personal favorite is not that crazy.
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