Proposed requirements for TV stations to post online their political...
Proposed requirements for TV stations to post online their political files and information about sponsors of issue ads raise “significant first amendment concerns,” the National Religious Broadcasters group said in comments filed with the FCC. Additionally, it would open such…
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advocates up to personal attacks, the NRB said. “The startling acts of harassment, retaliation and violence perpetrated against supporters of traditional marriage under a similar Internet-posting rule in California during the ‘Proposition 8’ process shows the problems with this approach,” NRB said. “The general government interest articulated by the Commission in support of this measure, namely, that the public should have ‘access’ to information about how television stations are serving their communities, is insufficient to overcome the potential extreme, burdensome ‘chilling effect’ that will be visited on politically-involved members of the public.” Meanwhile, the NAB is still canvassing members to get their views on the proposed rules, but many broadcasters have raised their own concerns that “any plan to put the public file online should carefully weigh the costs and benefits of an online system,” NAB lawyers told FCC officials, an ex parte notice shows.