‘Bloggericide: Ohio Officials Charge Blogger With Campaign Violations
Well, folks, this is bound to happen more and more as time rolls onward in this New Media world of ours. A blogger is in trouble with local Ohio officials who are trying to Shut him down using a badly applied campaign finance law all because he has been critical of county officials on his blog. That’s right, a county board is trying to silence the free political speech of a local Ohio blogger because he is critical of them.
……The reason the Board is going after Corsi is because he publishes on his blog critical assessments and lists of local officials that he calls “R.I.N.O.S.” Board officials feel that because he does not affix his name to his blog posts he is violating the transparency rules.
However, Corsi is just an independent blogger and is not a paid operative of any party or campaign and all his blogging expenses are paid for with his own funds.’ source
First Amendment rights are just fine so long as the exercise of them doesn’t seriously inconvenience our masters, for as long as it’s possible for them to sneer and write off the commenter as irrelevant or demented. But blogs are beginning to make a difference and we can expect more of this in the months ahead.
