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CBS News supports censoring blogs
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| 12-09-2004
| David_Wildes
Posted on 12/09/2004 10:18:50 PM PST by weegee
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To: konaice
> So it looks like CBS is going to have to get used to
> having 20 million fact checkers looking over their
> sholder from now on.
From now on?
Free political speech has been flowing on the Internet,
and the ARPAnet before it, for over 20 years. CBS is
just a little slow to notice.
They need to worry less about who will be checking on them,
and more about whether CBS will be around for anyone to
bother checking on.
To: Judith Anne
Beginning next year, the F.E.C. will institute new rules on the restricted uses of the Internet as it relates to political speech. What does this mean?It means the government will actually require you to wear tinfoil on your head to keep OUT the bloggers. Strange turn of events, eh?
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posted on
12/09/2004 10:36:00 PM PST
by
sam_paine
(X .................................)
To: Judith Anne
"What does this mean?"I think it means the beltway doesn't like us talking to eachother so much.
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posted on
12/09/2004 10:37:01 PM PST
by
Bonaparte
(Of course, it must look like an accident...)
To: weegee
Beginning next year, the F.E.C. will institute new rules on the restricted uses of the Internet as it relates to political speech....
WTF??? Since when is the federal government, each and every officer and commissioner of which is sworn to uphold the Constitution, in the business of "restrict[ing]" "political speech"??? (Not counting the FCC's former Fairness Doctrine, a misguided policy predicated on the perceived scarcity of radio bandwidth.)
I mean, political speech was the whole reason for the First Amendment in the first place. Nowadays, it seems that pornography has more protection than political speech.
/rant
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posted on
12/09/2004 10:37:16 PM PST
by
mondonico
(Peace through Superior Firepower)
To: goldstategop; konaice
When they talk about regulating blogs, know that Free Republic is on the top of their list.
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posted on
12/09/2004 10:38:33 PM PST
by
Bullish
To: Judith Anne
That one got my attention too.
BTW, wasn't Dan's creative writing test scores due this week?
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posted on
12/09/2004 10:39:04 PM PST
by
4woodenboats
(Cherry picking season is over! WA State is tired of being Gored!!)
To: 4woodenboats
Dec. 10 or 11, I thought I read.
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posted on
12/09/2004 10:41:53 PM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
To: Bonaparte
Well, bleep the Beltway. ;-D
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posted on
12/09/2004 10:42:48 PM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
To: Boundless
Free political speech has been flowing on the Internet, and the ARPAnet before it, for over 20 years. True, but it didn't matter then. Now, with something like 75% of the American Households having some access to the net, and web publishing something a high schoold dropout can master, it can no longer be ignored.
It was easy to ignore 5000 radicals at various colleges. Even if they proved their point and showed the documetation, nobody would listen, and you couldn't get it aired to save your sole. But now we need no one else's concent or approval to get something really wide exposure.
But, be that as it may, the important part of this is not now widespread it is, but how adept the American public is at filtering the sewage from the wine. How well and how quickly the word spreads and the forged documents were found out. One day. One F*ing day!
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posted on
12/09/2004 10:43:13 PM PST
by
konaice
To: Judith Anne
Dec. 10 or 11, I thought I read Of course. Bad news is always released on Fri. afternoon to keep a sharp dip caused by paniced shareholders from sitting all weekend. Thanks.
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posted on
12/09/2004 10:51:27 PM PST
by
4woodenboats
(Cherry picking season is over! WA State is tired of being Gored!!)
To: weegee
Note to the left wing maggots in charge of CBS phoney news. We have our eye on your eye!
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posted on
12/09/2004 11:12:33 PM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Writers of hate GW/Christians/ Republicans Articles = GIM=GAY INFECTED MEDIOTS!)
To: weegee
Separated at birth-- The CBS eye and Gort, the robot from The Day the Earth Stood Still.
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posted on
12/09/2004 11:40:59 PM PST
by
Ken H
To: Cboldt
"So, they (CBS, et al) can always sue us. That is a form of regulation. Otherwise, we are as free as they are to propagate discussion."
We're also free to discuss their propaganda.
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posted on
12/09/2004 11:41:58 PM PST
by
Cyclopean Squid
(The 80s belonged to the Gipper, the Aughts belong to Dubya!)
To: IowaHawk
You scored. Big time.
33 posts so far...
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posted on
12/09/2004 11:50:14 PM PST
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: MikeinIraq
Dawg. Let'em try...
Oops, wait, they're gonna try. Dang it.
Awrighty then, let'em try really fast, because at the rate they're going, the Old Media is gonna be the Dead Media in five years.
Good luck in getting blog regulation passed during this administration!
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posted on
12/09/2004 11:50:55 PM PST
by
dandelion
(http://thequestionfairy.blogspot.com/)
To: weegee
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posted on
12/09/2004 11:53:56 PM PST
by
GretchenM
(Because the wicked never stop, the righteous must work even harder.)
To: weegee
Well...
It looks like Claire Wolfe may have to revise on when it's time to "shoot the bastards."
To: konaice
"Even if they proved their point and showed the documetation, nobody would listen, and you couldn't get it aired to save your sole."The soulless creeps better keep their damned hands off my sole! And neither my soul, nor my sole, is for sale!
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posted on
12/09/2004 11:57:43 PM PST
by
Enterprise
(The left hates the Constitution. Islamic Fascism hates America. Natural allies.)
To: weegee
At minimum, the role of blogs in the Daschle-Thune race is a telling harbinger for 2006 and 2008. Some blogs could become new vehicles for the old political dirty tricks. CBS wants a MONOPOLY on this.
To: Cyclopean Squid
We're also free to discuss their propaganda. That's what I meant to say.
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posted on
12/10/2004 12:03:41 AM PST
by
Cboldt
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