Culberson is mad as hell about the prospect of losing his Twitter

By Ben Domenech

Following up on the Directors post on this issue, Rep. John Culberson is staying on top of the Congressional online authorization fallout, and sharing his outrage via his very active Twitter feed.

You can read the letter that started the whole process here, focused primarily on video content, but stretches to more than that, covering all content produced by members that appears on outside websites. As Culberson summarizes it: "my post would have to meet "existing content rules" and would need a disclaimer (140 characters at least!)"

This is just silly, people. A Congressman shouldn't have to put a disclaimer on YouTube: the American people know it's YouTube. They're not going to call up and say "How dare you link to some videotape of a dog on a skateboard! That's against the laws of nature! Dog on a skateboard - I swear, this whole planet's going to heck in a handbasket."

Let's hope the transparency groups like Sunlight and OpenCongress start talking about this...they've been disturbingly silent thus far.

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