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I assume this would put google and yahoo out of business too?
1 posted on 10/06/2015 11:36:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson

What about FR!? Posting articles, “even the headline,” would screw over forums too, wouldn’t it?


2 posted on 10/06/2015 11:39:48 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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As long as Der Kommissar is in command, they’ll be protected. If Drudge can’t survive, I guess FR is going deep underground. Yay, net neutrality and giving control over to the Feds!


3 posted on 10/06/2015 11:39:57 PM PDT by Rastus
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Without links the internet falls apart, literally.

Sites like FreeRepublic and DrudgeReport drive traffic to other sites - they should thank you!


5 posted on 10/06/2015 11:44:38 PM PDT by Ray76
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It may spur even more hundreds of independent “news sites” with their own reporters. You already see the MSM using footage taken by amateurs (ma and pa videos) and airing them. Nobody can copyright a plane crash, a war, politics, the weather and so on especially with so many cell phones with 1080p capability.


6 posted on 10/06/2015 11:47:59 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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The MSM DESPERATELY wants to return to the days when THEY controlled what was news with reporters reaching movie star status. The internet destroyed that.


7 posted on 10/06/2015 11:55:23 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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Imagine a future where the Los Angeles Times sues FR because some user posted one of their headlines, the link wasn’t removed in time, and the headline contained a major misspelling and grammatical error.


8 posted on 10/06/2015 11:56:46 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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Disturbing to say the least-Especially coming from Drudge.

Now what?

9 posted on 10/06/2015 11:57:16 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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They just can’t stand it that we have other places for news besides the state controlled, censored and sanitized MSM.


10 posted on 10/06/2015 11:58:54 PM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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Yup, glad you were the one one to post this.
Saw the entire interview video clip.
TPP has language in it that permits agreement partners to ban Internet content that’s critical of government corruption.
TPP also has very strong copyright protection provisions as well.
Add to that the FCC’s self proclaimed oversight of the Internet, and it’s conceivable that distressed news outlets would call for restrictions on news content sharing that has hurt their bottom line.
We knew this was coming.
Muzzling alternative news sites is a win for:
Corrupt governments, politicians, and corporations.

Add to that Obola’s recent Executive Order creating an interagency Behavioral Analysis citizen database, and it’s plain to see the vise is tightening.
All of us subjects will be greatly silenced, and kept ignorant of our master’s misdeeds.

When have we had enough?
When do we March on DC, while we still can?


11 posted on 10/06/2015 11:59:00 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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This is Nazi Germany 1930 in our time.

Control the news and you can make it.


12 posted on 10/06/2015 11:59:46 PM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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bump for later


14 posted on 10/07/2015 12:02:12 AM PDT by Bob434
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This isn't the first time that Governments have tried to restrict the dissemination of information ... and it won't be the last!

15 posted on 10/07/2015 12:03:42 AM PDT by Zakeet (Make Chelsea Clinton the new ambassador to Lybia. What difference does it make?)
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We must have Trump or Cruz for president, and then a law permitting Drudge’s activity and all 3rd party web site discussion activity must be passed.

Its not as dire as we might think. Article URLs can be sited and the discussion still held online, we would just be reading them off site in their original publication location, or alternatively we could be moving all of our host servers to Iceland, Norway, China, or Russia.No problem really.


16 posted on 10/07/2015 12:04:04 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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I assume this would put google and yahoo out of business too?

Yahoo redistributes Associated Press and Reuters news articles, among others. They pay the subscription fees, and are effectively a nationwide publisher.

Google has already fought this battle over article linking (in search results) in other countries. When they've lost, they simply shut down operations there. In some cases, the lost of referrals were devastating to the content providers.

17 posted on 10/07/2015 12:14:05 AM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderators)
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Hey Laz, just like predicted.


19 posted on 10/07/2015 12:18:41 AM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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This is frightening. . . They will turn the Internet into the home shopping network and nothing more.


21 posted on 10/07/2015 12:41:14 AM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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Drudge has links to infowars on this.

Drudge warned that social media giants like Twitter and Facebook were swallowing up content and strangling the organic growth of independent Internet news platforms. Automated news aggregators like Google News also came under fire.

“Google News – hello anybody? The idiots reading that crap think there is actually a human there – there is no human there – you are being programmed to being automated even up to your news….a same corporate glaze over everything,” said Drudge.

“Stop operating in their playground, stop it,” said Drudge, asserting that people were being confined by what the likes of Facebook and Twitter defined as the Internet as a result of this “corporate makeover” of the web.

“I’m just warning this country that yes, don’t get into this false sense that you are an individual when you’re on Facebook, no you’re not, you’re a pawn in their scheme,” concluded Drudge.


22 posted on 10/07/2015 12:41:59 AM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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Only Pravda will report news.


23 posted on 10/07/2015 12:43:36 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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And Realclearpolitics.. And every online newspaper in the country.


29 posted on 10/07/2015 1:45:54 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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Guns and free flow of information.

Wow.


30 posted on 10/07/2015 1:54:30 AM PDT by SE Mom (God, restore our beloved country, amen.)
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