(Via
Mouse Words):
The FEC may soon consider blog links to political donation sites as political advocacy subject to campaign finance laws.Which has me wondering: Just how much
is a link worth, anyway? Obviously a link from Daily Kos to the Dean campaign would be worth more than a link from me to the Dean campaign, as Daily Kos has about a million eyeballs daily and I'm lucky to break a hundred on the Sitemeter. But what about a link from Kos to me (e.g. "Maureen has more information on donating here") and about a million other bloggers? And how do you clearly mark the line between advocacy and information? "I'd really like you to support the Dean campaign... oh, by the way, here's the link to my Dean for America site."
Maybe we'll have Scalia asking what a blog is.
posted by Maureen at 7:36 PM
