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To: dennisw
From American Thinker: He "explicitly supports using the courts to impose a "chilling effect" on speech that might hurt someone's feelings. He thinks that the bloggers have been rampaging out of control and that new laws need to be written to corral them."

Sunstein's book is a blueprint for online censorship as he wants to hold blogs and web hosting services accountable for the remarks of commenters on websites while altering libel laws to make it easier to sue for spreading "rumors."...bloggers and others would be forced to remove such criticism unless they could be "proven".

Skepticism about candidates often begin on the web or talk radio-these steps (so vital to a democracy) would be chilled should Sunstein's ideas be put into practice. One should not dismiss that prospect: this is the most ideologically driven administration in many years.

12 posted on 10/23/2009 11:18:18 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia

Sunstien is a loopy old kook...same as 0bama

Rush was reading an excerpt from 0bama’s college thesis today. Where 0bama writes “our so called Founding Fathers” and starts bit**ing that the Constitution says nothing about wealth redistribution but should have


15 posted on 10/23/2009 11:34:38 AM PDT by dennisw (Obama -- our very own loopy, leftist god-thing.)
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