Flutterby™! : notes on the "SF wants to regulate blogging" thing

Larry asked if I'd seen this claim that San Francisco may regulate blogging. The city ordinance it refers to is about election spending, it's hard to excerpt any one bit of it, but:

The proposed legislation would regulate those communications often referred to as issue advocacy or electioneering communications by requiring persons who pay for such communications to: (1) identify themselves on the communication; and (2) file reports with the San Francisco Ethics Commission disclosing the costs of each communication and the names of any other persons who donated money for the communications.

And applies to those who'd spend more than $1000 on this in any calendar year. So, yes, another good example of why campaign finance reform laws are grease on the slippery slope, but not quite as alarmist as some would paint them.