GOP is Pro-Bloggers

Currently, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) is accepting comments on proposed rulemaking (in PDF format) concerning internet communications. The FEC is considering regulation of political websites, including bloggers.

The Republican National Committe (RNC) has submitted comments to the FEC, "strongly supporting a view of the Internet as an open public square where political ideas may be exchanged freely, without burdensome federal oversight or regulation that potentially discourages the use of the Internet in the political arena."

Among many of its suggestions is that bloggers should be included under the FEC's media exemption rule.

UPDATE:

The Center for Democracy and Technology has set-up an online petition of principles, to be sent to the FEC in opposition to any regulation of the internet or blogging. Here is a list of principles that bloggers are invited to sign-on to, to support the free-flowing marketplace of ideas that the internet has matured into. It is the almost-actualization of direct democracy - direct accountability. I encourage readers to sign.

Thanks, Instapundit.