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Dick Morris: Obama, Democrats Want Control of Internet Speech
Newsmax ^ | 27 Oct 2014 | Dick Morris

Posted on 10/27/2014 6:23:20 PM PDT by george76

Not content with the total bias and domination of the news networks, CNN, and the nation's leading newspapers, the Democrats on the Federal Election Commission have moved to assert federal control over Internet political speech. Claiming the authority to regulate political postings and blogs as independent campaign expenditures, they want to apply federal campaign finance laws to online voices.

According to the Washington Examiner, the three Democrats on the FEC moved at the Oct. 24 meeting to impose "burdensome new rules on Internet-based campaigning."

The three Republican members on the commission beat back the measure, warning the proposal would regulate "online political sites and even news media like the Drudge Report."

Saying that "a re-examination of the commission's approach to the Internet and other emerging technologies is long overdue," Ann M. Ravel, the Democratic vice-chair of the FEC, said she would begin a campaign for Internet regulation.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: freespeech; internet; obama; politicalspeech; speech

1 posted on 10/27/2014 6:23:20 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Sorry, but I just don’t buy that dick Morris really cares about any of the things he writes about.


2 posted on 10/27/2014 6:24:19 PM PDT by uncitizen (Buckle up! We're on the Facism Fast Track!)
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To: uncitizen

Phew...for second I thought it was going to be a Dick Morris prediction of GOP landslide next Tuesday.


3 posted on 10/27/2014 6:28:19 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: uncitizen

Dick Morris cares about paydays.


4 posted on 10/27/2014 6:36:45 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

it’s hard to believe anything but.


5 posted on 10/27/2014 6:38:18 PM PDT by uncitizen (Buckle up! We're on the Facism Fast Track!)
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To: george76

After decades of so-called “common sense gun control” — the Left is moving on the “common sense” speech control.


6 posted on 10/27/2014 6:48:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: george76

The first amendment was meant to protect political speech, the left really hates that people are allowed to voice opinions they don’t like.


7 posted on 10/27/2014 7:18:55 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: george76

Please, pubbies and dummocrats both are against the American people.

They work for globalist financial elites who hate people and want to wipe out a few billion of them, and control, enslave and profit from the rest, from cradle to grave.

Pubbies and Dummocrats do exactly what their globalist masters want them to do.

There’s no brain there, just a puppet with a globalist hand up its puppet chute.


8 posted on 10/27/2014 7:34:54 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: george76
I'll echo the last sentence of the article:
9 posted on 10/27/2014 7:46:38 PM PDT by upchuck (The language of government now is word-spew. ~ h/t Peggy Noonan)
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To: george76

What the Government can’t control, the Government will try to destroy.


10 posted on 10/27/2014 7:48:25 PM PDT by DaBeerfreak (As long as the politicians believe they're not the problem; we have a big problem.)
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To: george76

Thanks forthe warning, Dick....but what are you... a Dem or a Rino?


11 posted on 10/27/2014 9:12:03 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: george76

The toe sucking mercenary has spoken.


12 posted on 10/27/2014 10:35:53 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: george76
The three Republican members on the commission beat back the measure, warning the proposal would regulate "online political sites and even news media like the Drudge Report."

Typical Republican idiots. They should have mentioned the HuffPo, DU, and other Marxist fora.

13 posted on 10/28/2014 8:25:47 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: george76

Something is up. I keep getting the Microsoft Internet 8.1 message wanting to load. I keep telling it no, remind me later. Finally it comes up and gives me load it now, 2, 4, 6 hours later. I could not get rid of it. I had to turn off my computer to get it off my screen. It would not let me go on, only make the now, 2, 4, 6 hours from now to load it. This morning as I turned on my computer, it just loaded it whether I wanted it or not. It took NEARLY THREE HOURS to load all this crap. I could not use it till then. It has slowed my computer. It has done something to my computer. Probably loaded the dimocrat one world government crap to see everything I type and do. Microsoft has decided you will get what they want me to have on my computer. Seems we have no choice any more. They load it whether you like it or not.


14 posted on 10/28/2014 8:38:56 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Dick Morris cares about paydays.

And toes.

15 posted on 10/28/2014 10:58:59 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: RetiredArmy

Bill’s boys are getting more and more arrogant.

Locating a Win Seven disc, or even XP, and loading that, would send the right feedback.

You can bet there was some big money on the table.

M$ having a big “rightsizing” (/off Orwell) pretty soon?


16 posted on 10/28/2014 11:09:18 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: upchuck; AuH2ORepublican; justiceseeker93; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA

The next GOP President should appoint members of the Conservative Party of New York to any RAT vacancies on the commission, ignoring the spirit but not the letter of the law.


17 posted on 10/28/2014 10:29:36 PM PDT by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
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