[Personal Responsibility]

Can’t have the plebes thinking for themselves. They might not think the right things.

[BuffaloJack]

That would be counter to our First Amendment.

[GregoTX]

"...the German chancellor implied the internet would have to be subject to restrictive censorship laws..."

And there we have it.

[Art in Idaho]

NO. more. government. control. .

[hal ogen]

Two smug losers if I ever saw any. What pathetic fascist bums.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[FlingWingFlyer]

They think that the First Amendment is “unconstitutional”. It’s the commie way.

[Fiddlstix]

German Fuehrer Adolph Merkel Has Spoken! So Shall It Be!

[TruthWillWin]

Sounds like something Hitler (or Stalin) would do?

[McGruff]

A hundred years before the advent of Hitler, the German-Jewish poet, Heinrich Heine, had declared: “Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.” May 10, 1933 - Students and storm troopers on the Opera Square in Berlin with books and writings deemed “unGerman.”

[loveliberty2]

"“Digitisation is a disruptive technological force that brings about deep-seated change and transformation in society. Look at the history of the printing press, when this was invented what kind of consequences it had. Or industrialisation, what consequences that had.

“Very often, it led to enormous transformational processes within individual societies and it took a while until societies learned to find the right kinds of policies to contain this, to manage and steer this. We live in a period of profound transformation.” - Merkel

Merkel's is a shallow "progressive" analysis of what America's Founders rightly viewed as enhancements to a free exchange of ideas.

Who do these individuals like Merkel and Obama think they are to imagine, limited by their extremely limited study and understanding of the history of nations, that they or any of their ilk should "contain," or "manage" the technological wonders which enhance and enlarge the abilities of fellow human beings to communicate their ideas, or their God-given rights to "freedom of conscience" and "freedom of expression"--by whatever means available?

[ctdonath2]

They don’t seem to understand something.
The Internet was designed to route data traffic around outages (like a city being nuked).
Censorship gets treated like an outage.
There are some conventions we use to keep things simple & smooth, like a centralized DNS server (the core of what Obama just gave away; network equivalent of the White Pages).
Should censorship attempt to silence access to websites, users just switch from using centralized DNS servers and straightforward routing to the already-well-solved methods of private DNS, VPNs, encryption, alternate inter-network connections/backbones, and other techniques to re-route data and identify destinations.

Think “darknet”. Huge user base, highly active, major underground economy, no way to shut it down, invisible to “public”.

[bigredkitty1]

To the witch Merkel: F U B*tch. Keep your ugly mug out my First Amendment rights.

[DesertRhino]

Scratch a kraut...find a Nazi underneath.

[LydiaLong]

Watch out, Frau Merkel. Or your country’s conservatives might drop a house on you too.

[t4texas]

Communist, socialist repression! Good luck with that!!

[pepsi_junkie]

I’m good with a privately created internet equivalent if it comes to that.

[gattaca]

bmp

[Moltke]

who she accused of hijacking the German spirit for liberty

Merkel the Mad™ with her Stalinist upbringing does not have an inkling of a clue what liberty actually means. Her statement is also in direct violation of the German constitution which forbids censorship. She needs to go to prison.

[trisham]

Obama and German Chancellor Merkel want internet controlled by government

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Swine.