FEC

Adam Bonin, who's helping us draft comments for the FEC's proposed new internet/campaign rules has some comments over at Kos. To me, the primary thing is this:

[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.