Free Beacon Executive Editor Sonny Bunch appeared on TheBlaze TV Monday to discuss moves by the Federal Election Commission to place new rules on Internet-based campaigning.
Bunch said the proposed FEC rules would restrict what Facebook and Twitter users can post when the content is related to a political campaign.
“A lot of it has to do with uncertainty over who is funding what campaigns,” Bunch said. “And also, frankly, I think there’s just that impulse by the FEC to control. They have this idea that they are the arbiters of what should be said and what shouldn’t be.”
Bunch said that although the decision now stands at a 3-3 deadlock, with Republicans vowing to fight the proposed rule, it could be a trial balloon for a future abridgment of speech rights by Democratic regulators.
“You set this idea out there, you campaign on it in 2015 and 2016: ‘Oh, the Republicans won because they were able to spread their lies on social media,'” Bunch said. “It creates this kind of momentum where you can say, ‘well, the FEC really needs to get a hold of this.'”
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