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Big chill: Feds want to scour Net, media for 'hate speech'
WND ^ | 28 Apr 2014 | AARON KLEIN

Posted on 04/29/2014 6:05:01 AM PDT by shove_it

If two Democratic lawmakers have their way, Barack Obama’s Justice Department will submit a report for action against any Internet sites, broadcast, cable television or radio shows determined to be advocating or encouraging “violent acts.”

This according to the text of a new bill from Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.

The Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014 “would create an updated comprehensive report examining the role of the Internet and other telecommunications in encouraging hate crimes based on gender, race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation and create recommendations to address such crimes,” stated a news release from Markey’s office.

The one-page bill, reviewed by WND, calls for the Justice Department and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to “analyze information on the use of telecommunications, including the Internet, broadcast television and radio, cable television, public access television, commercial mobile services, and other electronic media, to advocate and encourage violent acts and the commission of crimes of hate.”

The bill does not define which actions by broadcasters would be considered to have encouraged violence, seemingly leaving that open to interpretation.

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(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: edmarkey; hakeemjeffries; hatespeech; internetcensorship
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To: CPOSharky

Yup. That’s the money quote.


21 posted on 04/29/2014 6:36:42 AM PDT by shove_it (long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of Obama's America)
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To: shove_it

but only hate speech by republicans

Look at the pass they are giving that rich basketball owner, after skewering the Bundy Ranch guy for much less

Oh and the rich basketball team owner is a democrat so all democrats must think like that (well thats what they said about Bundy and Republicans)


22 posted on 04/29/2014 6:37:16 AM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period. PALIN/CRUZ 2016)
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To: shove_it

Guess no one is supposed to mention that Hillary is old and fat and a Communist….


23 posted on 04/29/2014 6:37:18 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Lazamataz

I expect Free Republic will be shut down for good. That will be the beginning of the end.


24 posted on 04/29/2014 6:38:11 AM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: EBH

25 posted on 04/29/2014 6:42:15 AM PDT by shove_it (long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of Obama's America)
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To: shove_it

We need Thought Control like we need Gun Control....

And Many libs would not see the irony in the above statement...


26 posted on 04/29/2014 6:47:55 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: EBH

Ah, they finally figured out how to do the fairness doctrine. On a good note, this will go no where in the House. On a bad note, might get an edict from the palace, mandating this.


27 posted on 04/29/2014 6:49:02 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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To: shove_it

Go screw yourselves...violently.


28 posted on 04/29/2014 6:57:26 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Pitch black is the new "tranparent.")
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To: shove_it

Let’s party like it’s 1861


29 posted on 04/29/2014 7:02:17 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Politicians and diapers need to be changed for the same reason)
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To: Lazamataz

How so?Do you expect the government to come and kill you?


30 posted on 04/29/2014 7:03:14 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
"More evidence that we are one or two generations away from losing freedom."

One or two generations? I'd would like to live where you do. Here in the USA we have already lost everything but a pretense of freedom. Your lucky where you live.

31 posted on 04/29/2014 7:05:41 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: shove_it

Hate Hate

(Do two Hates make a Love?)


32 posted on 04/29/2014 7:19:19 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (You can count my felonies by looking at my FR replies.)
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To: shove_it

Problem is they have a selective definition of hate. It’s anything a White Christian or Jew says or does, or doesn’t say or doesn’t do.
Rape, murder and the knockout “game” against Whites is not defined as hate, and will continue to be actively encouraged by the government.


33 posted on 04/29/2014 7:22:41 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Ask me what I think.)
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To: shove_it

It’s an excuse for more spying on Americans.


34 posted on 04/29/2014 7:36:36 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: shove_it
Keeping in mind that this is "WND" reporting, who IMO only, are several cuts below "People" and "Cosmopolitan" as a hard-hitting news source ...

This is still concerning. All the more reason to make sure that conservatives carry the day in Nov 2014.

35 posted on 04/29/2014 7:37:22 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Farmer Dean

Yes. Or arrest me, which I will not accept.


36 posted on 04/29/2014 7:38:11 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: shove_it

Hey, shove, we are there. It’s back to the future.


37 posted on 04/29/2014 8:20:01 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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To: shove_it

This will of course include rap music and latino broadcasts. /sarc


38 posted on 04/29/2014 8:40:38 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Yup. The Framers foresaw tyranny and a provided a way to stop it (Article V) but Orwell and Rand told us 60+ years ago of what the 0bamanation would be like. Hopefully we can enact the Liberty Amendments and gain Conservative control of the Legislature and White House to take back America.


39 posted on 04/29/2014 8:45:48 AM PDT by shove_it (long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of Obama's America)
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To: shove_it

I would have gone wid “Big Bro is watchin’ Yo”...


40 posted on 04/29/2014 8:53:05 AM PDT by null and void ( They don't think think they are above the law. They think they are the law.)
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