May 4, 2005
The medium doesn’t matter
On Eschaton, Atrios weighs in on the Federal Election Commission’s debate about whether bloggers should be forced to disclose payments from political candidates, parties and PACs (more details here):
[S]tart from the principle of parallelism. Don’t regulate the Internet any more stringently than any other medium.
To me, it almost starts and stops there. Sure, there are idiosyncratic differences across various types of outlets which may require medium-specific rules, but the basic point is in those two sentences. It’s ridiculous that some people desire that a medium which requires no money in which to participate – for which there are no real gatekeepers – be effectively more regulated than radio/tv/print/etc.
Couldn’t agree more.
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