Shamlessly lifted from DRUDGE:
FEC May Tighten Restrictions On Internet Political Activity
Mon Feb 14 2005 10:38:41 ET
The Federal Election Commission next month will begin looking at tightening restrictions on political activities on the Internet, ROLL CALL reports Monday.
The FEC is planning to examine the question of how Internet activities, when coordinated with candidates' campaigns, fit into the definition of 'public communications.
Specifically, the FEC is planning to examine the question of how Internet activities, when coordinated with candidates' campaigns, fit into the definition of "public communications." While coordinated communications are considered campaign contributions and therefore subject to strict contribution limits, current FEC regulations adopted in 2002 carve out an exemption for coordinated political communications that are transmitted over the Internet.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Alabama Would Prohibit Gay Books in Libraries
Hello again folks in 'netland. Here is something that a friend of mine sent to me, and I thought it very worthy of posting. I do not know the original source of the article, whom I gladly acknowledge. Anyone with knowledge of the author, please post a comment so that they can receive credit.
Now read and prepare to get very, very, very fucking angry:
A bill introduced February 1 by Alabama State Rep. Gerald Allen
(R-Cottondale) seeks to prohibit public libraries, schools, and
universities from purchasing books or other materials that promote gay
culture or feature gay characters. HB30 would make it a Class A
misdemeanor to purchase, produce, or promote “printed or electronic
materials or activities that sanction, recognize, foster, or promote a
lifestyle or actions prohibited by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws
of the state.”
Allen had announced the bill at a press conference last November, two
months before the legislative session began, explaining that his intent
was to remove from library shelves any novel with a gay protagonist or any
college textbook that suggests homosexuality is natural. “I guess we dig a
big hole and dump them in and bury them,” he said in the December 1
Birmingham News.
University of Alabama Associate Theater Professor Peder Melhuse said in
the January 10 Crimson White campus newspaper that he doubted the bill
would pass, but “if it did go through, I would certainly go out of my way
to choose and vote for [productions] that went right in the face of the
law.”
The bill contains language asserting that it is not a “prior restraint of
the First Amendment protected speech” since it applies only to public
institutions “in the use of public funds and public facilities.” It also
makes its provisions severable, meaning that if any part of the law is
declared invalid or unconstitutional, other parts would not be affected.
Now read and prepare to get very, very, very fucking angry:
A bill introduced February 1 by Alabama State Rep. Gerald Allen
(R-Cottondale) seeks to prohibit public libraries, schools, and
universities from purchasing books or other materials that promote gay
culture or feature gay characters. HB30 would make it a Class A
misdemeanor to purchase, produce, or promote “printed or electronic
materials or activities that sanction, recognize, foster, or promote a
lifestyle or actions prohibited by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws
of the state.”
Allen had announced the bill at a press conference last November, two
months before the legislative session began, explaining that his intent
was to remove from library shelves any novel with a gay protagonist or any
college textbook that suggests homosexuality is natural. “I guess we dig a
big hole and dump them in and bury them,” he said in the December 1
Birmingham News.
University of Alabama Associate Theater Professor Peder Melhuse said in
the January 10 Crimson White campus newspaper that he doubted the bill
would pass, but “if it did go through, I would certainly go out of my way
to choose and vote for [productions] that went right in the face of the
law.”
The bill contains language asserting that it is not a “prior restraint of
the First Amendment protected speech” since it applies only to public
institutions “in the use of public funds and public facilities.” It also
makes its provisions severable, meaning that if any part of the law is
declared invalid or unconstitutional, other parts would not be affected.
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