Federal Election Commission Chairman Lee E. Goodman issued a warning that the federal government will soon impose regulations on conservative Internet sites, like Truth And Action and Drudge Report
“The right has begun to break the left’s media monopoly, particularly through new media outlets like the internet, and I sense that some on the left are starting to rethink the breadth of the media exemption and internet communications,” Goodman stated.
Goodman also states that he will fight this coming regulation.
In the 90’s Bill Clinton actually warned how conservatives could use the Internet to bypass left-media biased TV. Well, the man was right about one thing at least.
This is good news, actually. It means that we are really impinging on the corporate controlled media. Sure, we will have a fight on our hands, probably soon. But fight we will.
Government officials, reacting to the growing voice of conservative news outlets, especially on the internet, are angling to curtail the media’s exemption from federal election laws governing political organizations, a potentially chilling intervention that the chairman of the Federal Election Commission is vowing to fight.
“I think that there are impulses in the government every day to second guess and look into the editorial decisions of conservative publishers,” warned Federal Election Commission Chairman Lee E. Goodman in an interview.
“The right has begun to break the left’s media monopoly, particularly through new media outlets like the internet, and I sense that some on the left are starting to rethink the breadth of the media exemption and internet communications,” he added.
Noting the success of sites like the Drudge Report, Goodman said that protecting conservative media, especially those on the internet, “matters to me because I see the future going to the democratization of media largely through the internet. They can compete with the big boys now, and I have seen storm clouds that the second you start to regulate them, there is at least the possibility or indeed proclivity for selective enforcement, so we need to keep the media free and the internet free.”
All media has long benefited from an exemption from FEC rules, thereby allowing outlets to pick favorites in elections and promote them without any limits or disclosure requirements like political action committees.
But Goodman cited several examples where the FEC has considered regulating conservative media, including Sean Hannity‘s radio show and Citizens United’s movie division. Those efforts to lift the media exemption died in split votes at the politically evenly divided board, often with Democrats seeking regulation.
Liberals over the years have also pushed for a change in the Federal Communications Commission‘s “fairness doctrine” to cut of conservative voices, and retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has delighted Democrats recently with a proposed Constitutional amendment that some say could force the media to stop endorsing candidates or promoting issues.
“The picking and choosing has started to occur,” said Goodman. “There are some in this building that think we can actually regulate” media, added Goodman, a Republican whose chairmanship lasts through December. And if that occurs, he said, “then I am concerned about disparate treatment of conservative media.”
He added, “Truth be told, I want conservative media to have the same exemption as all other media.”
Actually, Mr. Clinton was right about one other thing, too. He picked Monica over Hillary.
They must eventually attempt mass censorship of internet news…because their false ideals and outright lies will not hold to the truth…They have no case and all of history and facts are against the feudal totalitarians that we label as liberals.
Screw them
Outrageous!!!
What a joke, a bunch of TRAITORS, trying to push Communism again in AMERICA, Liberals raising there lying heads, when there talking you know they are lying, and figuring how to steal more from AMERICA
They are pushing towards another Civil war. But they are forgetting the 100 million plus legal gun owners who will never give up there guns. Many of these are ex military and police, the rest have been shooting and stalking game since they were 12. The government idiots wont stand a chance as 80% of the police and military will be with us. It will be a short and bloody war. The damocrats will run and hide but we will find them, arrest them and try them for treason. I would prefer execution as we shouldnt have to pay to keep them in prison unless it is Arpaios prison in Arizona!!!!
Angie I do have hollow point
So you think Satanic Governance is the way to Go, crying about Jail Crowding
Democrat / liberal like to see America the way it was in Europe 1933
NO!!!!