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Moonbats and Wingnuts Unite:
What the FEC Decision Means
By: Erick · Section: Law

Leave it to the Federal Elections Commission (the “FEC”). After bitter fighting throughout the last two years, the FEC has managed to do what no one else could do – unite the Moonbats and Wingnuts, the left and right of the blogosphere.

In the interview linked to by Krempasky, FEC Commissioner Brad Smith suggests that the FEC will soon begin drafting regulations to regulate free speech on the internet. Thanks to the Supreme Court deciding that free speech really doesn’t mean free speech, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly decided that grassroots activism on the internet can be regulated. In 2002, the FEC voted 4-2 to exempt the internet from campaign finance regulation. John McCain and Russ Feingold sued over that vote and, with the judge’s decision, won. That decision made the case that the FEC could and should regulate internet activity. Despite the 4-2 decision in 2002, the FEC voted 3-3 this time on appealing the judge’s decision. The three against an appeal were all Democrats and a tie means there will be no appeal.


The Washington Times weighs in on this as well.