Posted on 03/17/2017 8:29:03 AM PDT by Fitzy_888
In a bill aimed at securing a "right to be forgotten," introduced by Assemblyman David I. Weprin and (as Senate Bill 4561 by state Sen. Tony Avella), liberal New York politicians would require people to remove ‘inaccurate,’ ‘irrelevant,’ ‘inadequate’ or ‘excessive’ statements about others...
Within 30 days of a ”request from an individual,”
“all search engines and online speakers] shall remove … content about such individual, and links or indexes to any of the same, that is ‘inaccurate’, ‘irrelevant’, ‘inadequate’ or ‘excessive,’ ”
“and without replacing such removed … content with any disclaimer [or] takedown notice.”
“ ‘[I]naccurate’, ‘irrelevant’, ‘inadequate’, or ‘excessive’ shall mean content,”
“which after a significant lapse in time from its first publication,”
“is no longer material to current public debate or discourse,”
“especially when considered in light of the financial, reputational and/or demonstrable other harm that the information … is causing to the requester’s professional, financial, reputational or other interest,”
“with the exception of content related to convicted felonies, legal matters relating to violence, or a matter that is of significant current public interest, and as to which the requester’s role with regard to the matter is central and substantial.”
Failure to comply would make the search engines or speakers liable for, at least, statutory damages of $250/day plus attorney fees.
We want our fake news so just go take your bill and .....
later
We don’t and never did need full time councilmen, congressmen etc.
They have nothing to do 24/7 except spend our money and make stupid and dangerous laws.
...arrest the bassturds
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“...Suppress Non-Government Approved Free Speech...”
If it has to be “government approved” what is “free” about it???
“Back in the USSR!!!!”
So he wants to shut down CNN and MSNBC?
Only in the Marxist state of NY. Remember folks, our Governor Boy Andy Cuomo is positioning for a race for the WH. FYI, he’s to the Left of Warren and Sanders.
Pussy.
To thr gentleman from New York...
Go sit on your thumb and spin!
This move and others like it, were planned to be mobilized in a far different setting- one in which Hillary was President and was to be a foundation brick in the erection of a fascist globalist world government, facilitated by the left but to be managed by the “invisible hand” of the oligarchy. We’ll be seeing a lot of such freedom destroying initiatives attempting to be launched in the coming months as various elements of their end game fire off automatically and futilely. But they will peter out in infertile ground. Very infertile ground, since the oligarchy’s time table has been shredded and they have basically run out of time in the Age of Info. Their plan for a “New World Order” has been fatally torpedoed. Trump can play footsie with Goldman Sachs and their like, since they will be dancing to the tune of the new terrain maps and reorient their operations towards actually building a nation rather than sabotaging it in the name of some technocrat 5th Reich.
The Communist North never sleeps.
New York Assemblyman Unveils Bill To Suppress Non-Government-Approved Free SpeechYou can bet they'll be the first in line at a "Convention of States" to amend the constitution regarding the first amendment... and then the second....
[[Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;]]
That one is out the window now- thanks to courts forcing Christians to bake cakes for gay couples
[[or abridging the freedom of speech,]]
This the next target of the left-
Oh, thats soooo old fashioned. When the founding fathers wrote that, they couldnt possibly apply it to the internet, radio, tv, etc, because those things didnt exist yet /sarcasm
Words like “inaccurate,” “excessive,” “irrelevant,” and “inadequate” reek of subjectivity and cannot form the basis of any law pertaining to First Amendment rights. Even “inaccurate” is currently subject to severe limitations as a basis for slander or libel prosecutions.
EXCERPT:
So, under this bill, newspapers, scholarly works, copies of books on Google Books and Amazon, online encyclopedias (Wikipedia and others) — all would have to be censored whenever a judge and jury found (or the author expected them to find) that the speech was “no longer material to current public debate or discourse” (except when it was “related to convicted felonies” or “legal matters relating to violence” in which the subject played a “central and substantial” role). And of course the bill contains no exception even for material of genuine historical interest; after all, such speech would have to be removed if it was “no longer material to current public debate.” Nor is there an exception for autobiographic material, whether in a book, on a blog or anywhere else. Nor is there an exception for political figures, prominent businesspeople and others.
But the deeper problem with the bill is simply that it aims to censor what people say, under a broad, vague test based on what the government thinks the public should or shouldn’t be discussing. It is clearly unconstitutional under current First Amendment law, and I hope First Amendment law will stay that way (no matter what rules other countries might have adopted).
Remember: There is no “right to be forgotten” in the abstract; no law can ensure that, and no law can be limited to that. Instead, the “right” this aims to protect is the power to suppress speech — the power to force people (on pain of financial ruin) to stop talking about other people, when some government body decides that they should stop.
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