ROFL
This is idiocracy in action. There’s a politician who went after FRee Republic for the same reason...remember that?
We were all called racist hate mongers and FR would have been shut down if idiots like this fool had their way.
Re: “This is idiocracy in action. There’s a politician who went after FRee Republic for the same reason...remember that?
We were all called racist hate mongers and FR would have been shut down if idiots like this fool had their way.”
Directing hate at someone (whether right or wrong) is not libel. A false accusation of a crime is, and several appeared at my.barackobama.com.
Free Republic, by the way, DOES try to keep overt hate and so on off the site. Several threads about Ted Kennedy’s illness were closed, and members threatened with suspensions, because of inappropriate remarks about Kennedy’s illness. In contrast, the Obama campaign does nothing about anti-Semitic, racist, and similar material until it becomes an Internet-wide scandal. (Suggested title: “Free Republic CLASS versus Barack Obama CRASS”)
This is not, however, what I am talking about here; the material at the Obama site goes beyond merely anti-Semitic, misogynist, and racist to actual libel of identifiable persons, both corporate and individual. As an example, saying that women are unfit to hold public office is misogynist (as happened at Obama’s site) but it is not legally actionable. A false accusation of a crime is, and Obama’s site contains numerous such entries.