I stand with the Captain on this one...

Not that I have to worry about my blog making a big enough splash to become an issue. He does address the larger point here.

The Captain makes this statement in his comments:

I don't plan on playing silly name games with those who plan on regulating speech for our own good. All that does is play into their strategy of twisting words and meanings until nothing means what it says any more.

I won't do it. I won't play along. I won't even do it as a protest, as these bloggers obviously mean it to be.

To this I give Captain Ed a standing ovation. Giving in at this juncture is wrong. It is an attempt to change the whole way the blogosphere functions. Things like blogroll, the TTLB ecosystem, will change they will have to -- if a "zine" is not a blog. The blogswarm...what would it be now? The zineswarm?

Redstate has some of the background information that has caused the decision by some to switch to the online zine.

http://fec.redstate.org/story/2005/6/30/13315/7953

Startribune lists some of the fears of why the FEC thinks the blog needs to be controlled. I agree with Markos, infact the very reason for existance of the blog and it's success has been it's desire and ability to call on the facts and try to present a different viewpoint. Both bloggers from the right and the left have made an impact. Is it possible some of them could be bought? Probably, but if that is the primary concern? There has to be another way of dealing with it.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5483344.html

This is not the way to protest it. So this person in the subculture of bellicose bloggers says...No Zine for me.