http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/08/bloggericide-ohio-officials-charge-blogger-with-campaign-violations/#comments
“The Geauga County Board of Elections has filed charges against the owner of the Geauga Constitutional Council blog, independent blogger Ed Corsi. The Board claims that Corsi’s pseudonymously published blog violates O.R.C. 3517.20(A)(2), a code meant to assure that political campaign publications, signs, and handouts have their source transparently identified. “
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I don’t see this as a free speech issue. I see this as a, you gonna say something binding or related to real life issues, then don’t do it from behind a curtain.
However, it would be interesting if this standard were applied to newspapers who pay foreign reporters to watch city council meetings in the U.S. and write reports on them without identifying that they are from another country.
Why not? We get all kinds of advertising and other speech that promotes political agendas (I’m thinking of the “green” labeling on all kinds of products and commercials).