The First Amendment Is Too Important

To be left in the hands of just anyone and everyone. It must be tightly regulated and controlled by those who know best. For our own good, of course.

According to the Institute for Justice

California’s Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) is considering “how to regulate new forms of political activity such as appeals on a voter’s Facebook page or in a text message.”

Not whether to regulate these new forms of political speech, but how.

Clicking through to the article IJ links to we discover that it is even worse than described.

The recommendations include requiring tweets and texts to link to a website that includes the full disclosures, although some people feel the disclosure should be in the text itself no matter how brief, O'Connor said.

And,

Any changes the commission makes to state law should give regulators the flexibility to respond to swiftly evolving technologies, the report says.

When regulators respond swiftly, they invariably respond arbitrarily and harshly as well. Likely their first reaction to new technologies will be to err on the side of censorship, until forced to stand down - usually well after the damage has already been done.