Pewgate Mastermind Spearheads Anti-Blogger Campaign

Sean P. Treglia – the man who inadvertently spilled the beans on the Pewgate scandal – turns out to be a leading proponent of regulating political speech on the Internet. (See "The Coming Crackdown on Blogging" on CNETnews.com.)

Treglia currently serves on the board of something called the Institute for Policy, Democracy & the Internet (IDFI) – one of the very front groups bankrolled by the Pew Charitable Trusts to push campaign finance "reform." IDFI's stated purpose is to foster regulation of political speech on the Internet (or, as they put it, to implement the, "design, testing, refinement, and promotion of appropriate standards of practice for the conduct of online campaigning").

According to Treglia's official government bio (he moonlights as a Los Angeles City Ethics Commissioner), the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Pewgate conspiracy recently, "managed a state appointed commission to develop and promote extending campaign finance laws to online political activities."