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« State constitutional rights to defend self and property | Main | Interesting aspect to the media »

Fight over whether congressmen are allowed to blog

Posted by David Hardy · 16 July 2008 11:38 AM

Story here. A Congressman is using Twitter and posting videos, and this revolutionary approach to communicating with Americans is causing a stir:

"Culberson's actions have put him in possible violation of House rules that appear to ban blogging or other work-related activities on non-House Web sites.

Current rules "have been interpreted to prohibit (House) members from posting official content outside of the House.gov domain," Rep. Michael Capuano, D-Mass., chairman of the Congressional Commission on Mailing Standards, better known as the franking committee, wrote in a report late last month."

3 Comments | Leave a comment

Critic | July 16, 2008 4:17 PM | Reply

I haven't looked into it myself but the comments on Slashdot claimed that it's only an effort to get some outside web servers approved for video because the government ones aren't up to it and they don't want official congressional posts to be mixed in with things like inappropriate advertisements. Still seems like an odd restriction but it's not like I'm too worried that Congress is censoring its members.

The Mechanic | July 17, 2008 5:34 PM | Reply

This came up on Outdoors yesterday. They don't want congress critters on twitter going straight to The People making an end-run around the Mainstream Media. I still have my NRA Official Press Pass so its still legal for me to mention this. Those were issued in response to McCain and Feingold's unconstitutional legislation. I wonder if they found any gold from that.

Kushin Los | July 18, 2008 12:26 AM | Reply

From what I gathered from the article about this, I would have to agree that the Representative is only looking out for his constituents which means that at least one of them is.

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