February 15, 2005
FEC To Reign In Online Advertising?
From News.com
The Federal Election Commission plans to begin reviewing next month whether the Internet should continue to enjoy its privileged status as exempt from some of the stricter dictates of a 2002 campaign finance law.
For the last three years, the FEC has been fighting to protect the rough-and-tumble world of Net advertising from being shackled by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, better known as the McCain-Feingold law. In the 2004 election, advocacy groups or rich individuals were able to coordinate online advertising with a political campaign without having it count as a contribution--something that's flatly not permitted for traditional media such as newspapers and television.
But now the FEC is reluctantly revisiting its earlier decision, thanks to a federal judge's ruling in September. "The commission's exclusion of Internet communications from the coordinated communications regulation severely undermines" the law's purposes, wrote U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.
Posted by Buzz Webster at February 15, 2005 05:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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