Just when you thought the Federal Election Commission had it out for the blogosphere, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors took it up a notch and announced yesterday that it will soon vote on a city ordinance that would require local bloggers to register with the city Ethics Commission and report all blog-related costs that exceed $1,000 in the aggregate.
How is this even enforceable? What if you are just visiting SF? Or what if you say your site isn't a blog, it's a journal. The point is limiting endorsements to political candidates, but guess what, blogs are powered by people not companies. I can endorse anything i want, and the more people that read my blog the better. Regulations are not going to solve the 'problem'.
1 comment:
Yeah, they can't do that. And if they do, their legal system is stupid.
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