Via ARS Technica
By Julian Sanchez | Published: September 25, 2008 – 10:44AM CT
At long last, John McCain and Barack Obama can pantomime lightsaber duels or get their Numa Numa on like any other red-blooded American. In a move that a spokesperson for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) called “a major step into the future,” the Senate Rules and Administration Committee has deigned to permit links to third-party sites like YouTube and Flickr from Senators’ official pages.
Roll Call reports that the change was made last week, ending the oft-ignored ban, but preserving general rules against using official resources for either commercial or partisan political purposes. The details will presumably need working out as, for instance, an embedded YouTube video will typically display a list of “related” videos after it ends, over which members of Congress would have little control.
