The Bloggers FAQ on Election Law addresses the legal issues regarding blogging about political campaigns. Is it true that new rules limit how I can blog about politics?
No, but some very narrow restrictions regarding online political advertisements were recently passed. As a result of a federal district court ruling in the fall of 2004, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) was forced to reconsider how it implemented federal election laws regarding behavior on the Internet. When an FEC commissioner implied that new regulations could strongly impact the online community, bloggers took notice. After intense criticism from bloggers and First Amendment activists, the FEC in March of 2005 issued a series of relatively weak new proposed regulations that would place some limited new restrictions on blogging and other communications on the Internet. The final regulations, published in the Federal Register on April 12, 2006, were largely limited to online political advertising.
