A column by Eliza Newlin Carney at National Journal.com ($$) discusses how the Internet and new online techniques effect campaign finance laws. From ads embedded in video games, to unprecedented online fundraising, to targeted Web messages that track users with secret "cookies," political uses of the Internet have exploded in 2008. But as candidates and citizens alike have pushed boundaries, they have taxed the elasticity of existing election laws and campaign finance rules. Several recent Internet-related controversies have raised a host of policy and legal questions involving privacy, transparency and copyright issues. Such examples discussed are VoterVoter.com, which the Federal Election Commission (FEC) is set to rule on today (Oct. 23). VoterVoter.com is a service where anyone can pay for others' Internet ads and have them run on radio and TV stations. Another similar service is SaysMe.tv. "Lawyers for both groups say that an FEC draft response awaiting final approval proposes rules that would squelch the free speech of citizens who are enjoying a political platform for the first time thanks to new technologies. [. . .] Previous FEC regulations have exempted political activity on the Internet from most campaign finance rules."