The NY Times offers this editorial on the FEC internet rulemaking. One part that makes me wonder if the editorial writer understood the scope of protection offered to bloggers: “To the contrary, bloggers have now been assured of the same wide latitude to opine free of government control as newspapers enjoy, so long as they are not paid by a political campaign.” I think that under the rules bloggers can receive all kinds of political payments (such as for “consulting”) from campaigns (which need not be disclosed on the blog) so long as the resulting blog posts don’t constitute “paid advertising” from the campaign.