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Twitter, Facebook face political regulation?

August 3, 2010 By admin

SFWeekly:

The Fair Political Practices Commission released a report Monday recommending that political Facebook  pages, Tweets, e-mails and other forms of paperless communication be regulated just as stringently as TV or radio commercials, or mailers overflowing our letter boxes.

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Finally, folks ruminating on the Web about political matters are not going to be getting phone calls from regulatory agencies demanding they cease and desist — even if they’re paid political hacks. “We recommend that bloggers not be required … to disclose in their blogs that they are paid by a political campaign,” the report states.

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