They want to silence your blog

By Aussiegirl

If you have a blog, or you read blogs, or you listen to talk radio, or you have any opinions on politics that you might like to express in the future, you cannot miss reading this alarming article.

There is the very real possibility that the McCain Feingold act, along with the return of the so-called Fairness Doctrine, may drive bloggers and radio hosts out of business.

This presents a real threat to the future of free political speech on the internet, and it's something I warned about even before the last election. I have stated on many occasions that the blogosphere would be the next target of the liberal politicians as we represent the biggest danger to their near monopoly on the major media and the airwaves.

City Journal Winter 2006 The Plot to Shush Rush and O�Reilly by Brian C. Anderson

The rise of alternative media—political talk radio in the eighties, cable news in the nineties, and the blogosphere in the new millennium—has broken the liberal monopoly over news and opinion outlets. The Left understands acutely the implications of this revolution, blaming much of the Democratic Party’s current electoral trouble on the influence of the new media’s vigorous conservative voices. Instead of fighting back with ideas, however, today’s liberals quietly, relentlessly, and illiberally are working to smother this flourishing universe of political discourse under a tangle of campaign-finance and media regulations. Their campaign represents the most sustained attack on free political speech in the United States since the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts. Though Republicans have the most to lose in the short run, all Americans who care about our most fundamental rights and the civic health of our democracy need to understand what’s going on—and resist it.
The most imminent danger comes from campaign-finance rules, especially those spawned by the 2002 McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act. Republican maverick John McCain’s co-sponsorship aside, the bill passed only because of overwhelming Dem support.