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#  FEC Moves to Invade Free Speech Rights

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 Thursday, 30 October 2014

 

 

 

Steve Klein speaks with Glenn Woods on Boldrepublic.com about Internet regulation and the likely and negative outcome for free speech as the Federal Election Commission tries to expand its jurisdiction to online speech.



 

 

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