Over on Social Signal, I’ve blogged about the Quebec chief electoral officer’s intention to start applying election spending rules to the web (CBC story here.) Here’s the upshot, but if this kind of thing interests you, I hope you’ll feel free to comment on the post:
The ability to reach large audiences has traditionally skewed toward the wealthy and powerful – but social media is eroding that. With audience comes influence… and the interest of regulators. And if the parade of enthusiastic amateurs who are creating so much of social media are unprepared for that interest, well, regulators (and especially their legal environment) are at least as unprepared for dealing with social media.
