If the FEC and FCC ever team up to stifle political speech on the internet, never let it be said that we didn't have fair warning. FCC commissioner Ajit Pai, one of two Republicans on the 5-member commission, told the Right Online conference in Washington, D.C. that regulators see political speech on the internet as inherently dangerous and will probably seek to severely restrict it and regulate it in the near future. Talking about the new regulations governing the internet, Pai issued his warning about what's afoot in Washington: However, Pai said it was only the beginning. In the future, he said, “I could easily see this migrating over to the direction of content… What you’re seeing now is an impulse not just to regulate the roads over which traffic goes, but the traffic itself.” Continuing, he said, “It is conceivable to me to see the government saying, ‘We think the Drudge Report is having a disproportionate effect on our...(Read Full Post)