Weekly column: Why campaign finance "reformers" are squirming over blog regulation [fs]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Blog rolling? D.C.'s new spin on Net rules
March 28, 2005, 4:00 AM PT
By Declan McCullagh

After a public outcry over government regulation of bloggers, some of 
Congress' most ardent campaign finance reformers have found themselves 
in a politically uncomfortable position.

Three years ago, Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Russell Feingold, 
D-Wis., persuaded their colleagues to approve a campaign finance law 
with no exemptions for the Internet. But because that law now requires 
federal regulators to take a look at bloggers, McCain and Feingold are 
suddenly ducking for cover.

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