Jan 30, 2007

Freedom of Speech

When going through other blogs I stumbled upon an interesting article about the government's proposal to require force bloggers and online grassroots to regularly report their activities to Congress or go to jail.

"Section 220 of S. 1, the lobbying reform bill currently before the Senate, would require grassroots causes, even bloggers, who communicate to 500 or more members of the public on policy matters, to register and report quarterly to Congress the same as the big K Street lobbyists. Section 220 would amend existing lobbying reporting law by creating the most expansive intrusion on First Amendment rights ever. For the first time in history, critics of Congress will need to register and report with Congress itself"

As I've seen John McCain is apart of the attack as well but its an actually interesting article on both ends. If you want more info on this http://infowars.net/articles/january2007/180107Bloggers_Prison.htm



Nathaniel Peete Jr.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Whoever wrote those 'rules' are assuming bloggers to be editorial professionals. Hahahaha...

Why the f**k must commoners cum voters report to such authority when discussing matters concerning own country?

Makes no sense.

Anonymous said...

Fairly thin skinned are some politicians. Freedom of speech covers blogs last time I checked. So how are the bloggers reacting? Apparently not silenced as of yet!!