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Can Congress tweet? Should bloggers care?

arstechnica.com — A political spat erupted in Washington, D.C., earlier this month over rules governing how members of Congress may use the Internet. House Republicans argued that proposed changes to the rules amounted to "new government censorship of the Internet," while Democrats said the charges were exaggerated.

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  • crxvfr, on 07/28/2008, -1/+4Personally, I think twitter is the lamest site around. .......I WISH we know what our politicians were doing, but I don't think the truth will leak out from twitter.
  • PHiZ187, on 07/29/2008, -0/+1The article isn't really clear on why these rules exist. The first thing to understand is that this applies to things paid for with taxpayer money. There is a distinct separation between funds used for your congressional responsibilities and for campaigning. It also seems that they have this stupid notion that if a congressperson posts a video on youtube, and advertising appears next to it, it would be mistaken for the candidate endorsing the advertising. I know it sounds stupid, this is definitely a silly throwback and a classic example of rules/guidelines not keeping up with technology.
  • compu73rg33k, on 07/29/2008, -0/+1Good thing there aren't more important things to worry about at the moment, like impeaching the President. How about he tweets, "Impeaching bush ftw!" and ***** get on it instead of worrying about breaking arcane rules that the leader of Congress has broken multiple times.
  • cjoh, on 07/29/2008, -0/+0http://www.letourcongresstweet.org
  • Telekenesis, on 07/29/2008, -0/+0Yes well, maybe your right, but that's not the point.

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