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    New California Regulation on Political Bloggers Will Chill Free Speech



    New California Regulation on Political Bloggers Will Chill Free Speech
    http://blog.independent.org/2013/09/...l-free-speech/

    Yesterday the California Fair Political Practices Commission approved a dangerous regulation that will subject political bloggers to disclosure rules.

    The regulation forces campaign committees to report on their campaign finance statements the names of people they pay to post “favorable or unfavorable” political messages about “a candidate or ballot measure” on a website, blog, social media platform, or online video. They must also report how much they paid the person and the name of the website where the content first appears.

    The regulation will be a compliance and paperwork nightmare in the age of the Internet when ideas embedded in blogs, tweets, and videos are ubiquitous. The Commission will be able to pick and choose “compliance violations” to fine based on the Commission’s political leanings. Violations by friendlies will be overlooked; violations by enemies will be punished.

    But most important the regulation will have a chilling effect on people who want to support causes they believe in yet they want to remain anonymous or keep their personal finances private.

    The American War of Independence and the pamphleteers who provided intellectual ammunition in support of the revolution were often financed by anonymous donors because the pamphleteers and donors were considered “rebel traitors” by the Crown and risked imprisonment, confiscation of their property, and death if loyalists to King George III found out.
    [...]
    The decision of the California Fair Political Practices Commission is yet another example of government regulation of American political life that is entirely unwarranted, chilling, and threatens the civil, economic, and political liberties of the American people.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock



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    Quote Originally Posted by Lucille View Post
    The Commission will be able to pick and choose “compliance violations” to fine based on the Commission’s political leanings. Violations by friendlies will be overlooked; violations by enemies will be punished.
    Sounds exactly like every other piece of legislation turned over to the "Just-Us" department....

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    Well. All the shills on this site based in California are about to get exposed.

    It will be an interesting data set to say the least.

    But most important the regulation will have a chilling effect on people who want to support causes they believe in yet they want to remain anonymous or keep their personal finances private.
    Bollocks. Its just a requirement to report Shills. If you ain't paid to say it, then you don't have to report it.
    Last edited by idiom; 09-21-2013 at 03:04 PM.
    In New Zealand:
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    Air Traffic Control is a private company run on user fees
    The DMV is a private non-profit
    Rescue helicopters and ambulances are operated by charities and are plastered with corporate logos
    The agriculture industry has zero subsidies
    5% of the national vote, gets you 5 seats in Parliament
    A tax return has 4 fields
    Business licenses aren't a thing
    Prostitution is legal
    We have a constitutional right to refuse any type of medical care

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    I hate my state so much.
    "The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations."
    - Thomas Jefferson

    "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
    - James Madison

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lucille View Post


    New California Regulation on Political Bloggers Will Chill Free Speech
    http://blog.independent.org/2013/09/...l-free-speech/
    Don't they have to report all expenditures anyway?

    I"m not a fan of campaign finance reporting. I think it's ridiculous. But if they are required to list their expenditures...why wouldn't they be required to lost bloggers on their payroll?

    But most important the regulation will have a chilling effect on people who want to support causes they believe in yet they want to remain anonymous or keep their personal finances private.
    It's funny that it's always the liberal states that start this nonsense.
    Last edited by angelatc; 09-21-2013 at 04:16 PM.

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    I, for one, would love to know how many of the people who post here are only posting here because they are on Obama's pay roll. Or AIPAC's.
    In New Zealand:
    The Coastguard is a Charity
    Air Traffic Control is a private company run on user fees
    The DMV is a private non-profit
    Rescue helicopters and ambulances are operated by charities and are plastered with corporate logos
    The agriculture industry has zero subsidies
    5% of the national vote, gets you 5 seats in Parliament
    A tax return has 4 fields
    Business licenses aren't a thing
    Prostitution is legal
    We have a constitutional right to refuse any type of medical care

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    Quote Originally Posted by idiom View Post
    Well. All the shills on this site based in California are about to get exposed.
    It will be an interesting data set to say the least.
    Bollocks. Its just a requirement to report Shills. If you ain't paid to say it, then you don't have to report it.
    It is another brick on the road to completely end free speech. This just makes it easier for them to pass worse stuff in the future.
    Lifetime member of more than 1 national gun organization and the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance. Part of Young Americans for Liberty and Campaign for Liberty. Free State Project participant and multi-year Free Talk Live AMPlifier.

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    Because you think anybody is anonymous on the internet right now?
    In New Zealand:
    The Coastguard is a Charity
    Air Traffic Control is a private company run on user fees
    The DMV is a private non-profit
    Rescue helicopters and ambulances are operated by charities and are plastered with corporate logos
    The agriculture industry has zero subsidies
    5% of the national vote, gets you 5 seats in Parliament
    A tax return has 4 fields
    Business licenses aren't a thing
    Prostitution is legal
    We have a constitutional right to refuse any type of medical care



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    Limiting free speech by persecuting citizen journalists, corralling protestors into "free speech zones", and forbidding any protests where secret service might be near-by.

    The US is Nazi Germany.

    Lindsey Graham's wet dream.

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    Quote Originally Posted by idiom View Post
    I, for one, would love to know how many of the people who post here are only posting here because they are on Obama's pay roll. Or AIPAC's.
    You have good point. Comment on the effect of strategy to detect, expose and block paid cognitive infiltration would be appreciated.

    http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...Of-Free-Speech

    There is double benefit to sincere Americans participating; Schills are exposed, and unity surrounding pre constitutional intent is developed.



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