Luckily for you and anyone else who blogs, while being a major douchebag in nearly all other things, Scalia is pretty rigidly consistent on all things 1st amendment (thus, The Citizens United decision).

I wouldn't worry too much about it, but it's always good to call these things out lest we forget that we all used to enjoy these crazy things called civil liberties in this country.

Why do you think the airborne sniffer drones have wifi encryption cracking onboard?

Yes, you are being spied on. Already. Without a warrant.

Good news is that all this Web Writing must finally be turning up the heat under the Establishment butts if they have to resort to regulation.

As a blogger (Seattle Schools Community Forum), I say, "Hmm." I have sources who I would never want to reveal or out and I find it troubling that I could be compelled to name them (unlike a regular reporter which, yes, I know I am not).

But people who blog to widen the discussion, pull back the curtain and show how the sausage is made should not be curtailed, they should be encouraged.

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You are VERY MUCH a "regular reporter", just not a professional one.

Freedom of the press means freedom of the printing press to flow, unregulated. This comes from an age when people could, if they chose to do so, afford small printing presses and distribute fliers with political information on them (fliers/pamphlets are almost never able to be stopped by the government from being distributed, even today).

What is a blog, other than the modern update of these small, home printing presses? Whether or not the government agrees and ever tries to take away your 1st amendment right is irrelevant. You have it just as much as Dan Rather does, and you should assert it just as strongly at all times.