Bloggers narrowly dodged federal crackdown this week [fs]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5635724.html

Bloggers narrowly dodge federal crackdown
Published: March 24, 2005, 8:50 PM PST

Political bloggers and other online commentators narrowly avoided being 
slammed with a sweeping set of Internet regulations this week.

When the Federal Election Commission kicked off the process of extending 
campaign finance rules to the Internet on Thursday, the public document 
was substantially altered from one prepared just two weeks earlier and 
reviewed by CNET News.com.

The 44-page document, prepared by the FEC general counsel's office and 
dated March 10, took a radically different approach and would have 
imposed decades-old rules designed for federal campaigns on many 
political Web sites and bloggers.

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