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Rick Santorum Answers Question On SOPA: ‘There Are Limits To Freedom On The Internet’
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| 01/08/2012
| Josh Feldman
Posted on 01/09/2012 10:12:29 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan
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To: BuckeyeTexan
SOPA and PIPA are a direct threat to Free Republic. That is true.
It appears Ricky's google-bombing at the hands of Dan Savage has traumatized him, leading to his apparent confusion about the meaning of the First Amendment.
Let's get behind Newt. Romney's ceiling seems to be around 25%. We need to narrow the field, so that a real conservative can exceed the Mittwit's low ceiling.
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posted on
01/09/2012 11:04:44 AM PST
by
cynwoody
To: SaraJohnson
I think hes a party guy and would have gone along with TARP. Hes also a social engineer.
Of course he'd go along with it, and he'd be proud to sign any such legislation if it landed on his desk. The man's openly declared himself as a 'culture warrior' and sees it as the government's duty to help enforce what he sees as desirable culture. He'd be more than happy to use stuff like SOPA as a means to this end.
Rick Santorum is no friend of limited government and in his own words he is opposed to so-called "radical individualism." In his worldview, liberty is just a gateway to libertinism.
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posted on
01/09/2012 11:05:14 AM PST
by
Utmost Certainty
(Our Enemy, the State | Gingrich 2012)
To: Sprite518
How did former Senator vote for TARP or for bailing out GM? I don't think his term expired, without re-election, 'fore all that.
Not all of us we're fooled by the sorry puke Specter, but I can see how Pennsylvania real politik would make "supporting" Arlen a necessity at times. That is, unless you're in favor of Public Campaign Financing, naturally.
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posted on
01/09/2012 11:05:29 AM PST
by
Prospero
To: BuckeyeTexan
Ohhh noooo, Rick! There already exists net nanny, etc, for families to protect kids. You MUST come out against SOPA. There must be Internet freedom!
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posted on
01/09/2012 11:08:12 AM PST
by
Yaelle
To: BuckeyeTexan
Fortunately, this comment was NOT made by a serious Presidential candidate. Otherwise, I would be quite concerned.
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posted on
01/09/2012 11:08:34 AM PST
by
magritte
To: Prospero
Or when you shout “Fire” and everybody tells you to sit down and shut up...
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posted on
01/09/2012 11:11:15 AM PST
by
magritte
To: BuckeyeTexan
Why don’t we let the govt eavesdrop on every phone conversation? People might be up to no good.
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posted on
01/09/2012 11:12:39 AM PST
by
PghBaldy
(War Powers Res: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/warpower.asp)
To: Surrounded_too
YES! I have noticed this for nearly a week on multiple computers, regardless of internet connection speed. At first I thought it was just my computer/connection, but I have a friend’s whose is the same. I knew that it wasn’t just me!
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posted on
01/09/2012 11:13:28 AM PST
by
JDW11235
(I think I got it now!)
To: apoliticalone
Exactly. There was a mechanism, civil law, which always governed contract and copyright law.
It was decided some years back that this was too troublesome and expensive to use for enforcement of copyright, so the burden was shifted to the public, by moving it into criminal law.
You could really consider this to be corporate welfare, since the expense of prosecution is now borne entirely by the taxpayers, whereas before some share of it was paid by the copyright holders.
Add to this the nearly-perpetual extension of copyright terms (something the Founding Fathers specifically excluded), and you can see that the entire system is broken and corrupt.
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posted on
01/09/2012 11:25:24 AM PST
by
B Knotts
(Just another Tenther)
To: BuckeyeTexan
I got an email today from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, they are for it. I won’t be renewing with them.
To: Vendome
Santorum is a big-government social conservative IMO.
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posted on
01/09/2012 11:44:08 AM PST
by
BuckeyeTexan
(Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
To: BuckeyeTexan
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posted on
01/09/2012 11:50:01 AM PST
by
Tribune7
(Vote Perry)
To: Utmost Certainty
O M F G. Stupidity by Santorum. I guess he doesn’t get online much. He should speak to Rep. Darrell Issa, who is leading the charge against the SOPA disgrace.
To: KJC1
I guess I dont understand what is wrong with what he said. Rights are not unlimited, I guess that would include the right to life hmnnnn.
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posted on
01/09/2012 11:58:38 AM PST
by
itsahoot
(Throw them all out! Especially the Frugal Socialists who call themselves Republicans.)
To: GlockThe Vote
Santorum is a non-starter. He is for the huge intrusive nanny state.I did a lot of reading on Santorum over the weekend. I came to the same conclusion. He doesn't seem to have a strong instinct for Liberty.
Santorum's view of good government would not be as Liberty oriented as Jefferson's view of good government, which follows:
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
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posted on
01/09/2012 12:27:01 PM PST
by
sand88
To: BuckeyeTexan; Jim Robinson
Read on some post that he is NOT a NBC, like our Senator Marco Rubio???
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posted on
01/09/2012 12:32:21 PM PST
by
danamco
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To: danamco; LucyT
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posted on
01/09/2012 12:34:01 PM PST
by
danamco
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To: KJC1
I guess I dont understand what is wrong with what he said. Of course there have to be limits: committing crimes over the Internet, sending threats, etc.
I dont think Santorum wants to limit free speech, rather hes probably taking the above into account.
Having said the above, there might be language buried in the proposals that might be troubling...dont know.
There are already laws against software and music and movie piracy, but SOPA is not about piracy, it's about controlling what you do or say on the internet. It has fancy language designed to make it look like it's just about piracy, but it also has deliberately vague language that makes it all to easy to shut down websites.
It would take minutes to get a site like Free Republic shut down, and Jim Robinson would have an incredibly hard and probably expensive time in getting it back online, since he would have to appeal to multiple authorities, all of whom might turn him down or ignore him.
To: Tribune7
Has Perry publicly declared that he’s against SOPA?
To: Sprite518
Oh and he voted for the TARPWhatever you're smoking, I would throw the rest of it away.
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