If you care about DU sign this petition, fed to regulate the internet...

[Melodybe]

y Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com


WASHINGTON--The Federal Election Commission has begun the perilous process of including political blogs and Web sites in campaign finance rules that were created long before the Internet became such a powerful political tool.

FEC commissioners voted 5-1 on Thursday to approve a procedure that is expected to end with a final set of Internet rules--governing everything from whether bloggers are journalists to bulk political e-mail--in place by the end of the year. SNIP

Here is the link:

http://news.com.com/Feds+get+set+for+Net+rules/2100-1028_3-5634670.html?tag=nefd.lede

Here is the petition:

www.onlinecoalition.com

[beam me up scottie]

1. done

[cry baby]

2. done, thanks for the link! nt

[GetTheRightVote]

3. When going to the letter first ........ the link is below

link: http://www.onlinecoalition.com/

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[Melodybe]

4. I edited to change it, thanks for catching it.

[Melodybe]

5. We should keep this kicked it is very important.

[Melodybe]

6. kick to keep it on the front page.

[chomskysright]

7. kick!!!!!

[chomskysright]

8. did it: kick again!

[Melodybe]

9. I love Noam Chomsky, manufacturing consent will change your life

[Zhade]

10. Kick

kick

[in_cog_ni_to]

11. signed.

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[auburngrad82]

12. kick

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[Kolesar]

13. That CNet article talks around the subject, but does not explain the rules

It presumes that the reader knows the campaign finance laws already.

[Melodybe]

14. Or like almost all of the laws passed under Bushco, they are purposely

keeping that part to themselves.

[Kolesar]

16. I had not thought of that. Thanks. eom

[Swamp Rat]

15. I'm recommending this for the "Greatest Page."

This is a direct assult on We the People.

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[Melodybe]

17. Thanks, I love DU and any thought of not having it makes me want to cry.

I wish I could nominate my own post, just so more people would see it and sign the petition.

[understandinglife]

18. Done. (nt)

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[Melodybe]

19. kick to get more people to sign the petition.

[toad12]

20. Signed, thanks for posting. (n/t)

[Melodybe]

21. kick to keep it on the front page of GD

[Cha]

22. Thank you! They better not

screw with our ability to policically blog!

[libhill]

33. Only with liberal sites, I'm sure

Wing nuts will still be allowed to blog away.

[Robbien]

23. Signed and a kick

Up to the top

[oasis]

24. kick

[AmBlue]

25. kick

KICK
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[BikeWriter]

26. Signed, and posted in the Action Folder on my own forum!

[Sewsojm]

27. Signed

"Kick"

[Gelliebeans]

28. done and kicked n/t

[seito]

29. Done n/t

[LiberalCompassionate]

30. Done! n/t

[newyawker99]

31. kick

[cry baby]

32. kick

[Robbien]

34. kick for the evening crowd

[dandrhesse]

35. done and forwarded on to my email group

[DireStrike]

36. kick

[libodem]

37. they should leave the blogs alone

and I can't think of any thing more grassroots than the web. Everyone is connected and if we wish to have solidarity and all pitch in toward something for some collective power ie. if we all sent a buck and there are 60,000 of us....you see...It has potential for money and power...just what they don't want anyone else having, any of... see they are all connected from the top....power on the hands of the few...dictated down...we have the potential to group from the ground-up or the underground-up...and have collective power...hummmmm something-like democracy in action...ohhhh, what a concect..I thought they were all for spreading democracy....Or are they? (maniacal cackle)

[Robbien]

38. Kick for the late evening crowd. Keep kicked please

eom

[Biased Liberal Media]

39. kick!

[Laurab]

40. Done n/t

[ebayfool]

41. done, & kick! n/t

[Melodybe]

42. kick

[Melodybe]

43. kick