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"It's Over For Me" Matt Drudge Warns Public "You're A Pawn In The 'Ghetto-isation'" Of The Web
Zero Hedge ^ | 10-10-2015 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 10/10/2015 10:18:25 AM PDT by blam

Tyler Durden
10/09/2015

The very foundation of the free Internet is under severe threat from copyright laws that could ban independent media outlets, according to Matt Drudge. "I had a Supreme Court Justice tell me it’s over for me,” said Drudge, warning web users that they were being pushed "pawn-like" into the cyber "ghettos" of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

As DCClothesline.com reports,

During an appearance on the Alex Jones Show, Drudge asserted that copyright laws which prevent websites from even linking to news stories were being advanced.

“I had a Supreme Court Justice tell me it’s over for me,” said Drudge. “They’ve got the votes now to enforce copyright law, you’re out of there. They’re going to make it so you can’t even use headlines.”

“To have a Supreme Court Justice say to me it’s over, they’ve got the votes, which means time is limited,” he added, noting that a day was coming when simply operating an independent website could be outlawed.

“That will end (it) for me – fine – I’ve had a hell of a run,” said Drudge, adding that web users were being pushed into the cyber “ghettos” of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

“This is ghetto, this is corporate, they’re taking your energy and you’re getting nothing in return – nothing!”

Watch the full interview below...

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drudge; freerepublic; government; news; web
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To: blam
Government and it's political class masters,

"Making the Internet Boring, and Sanitized for our protection"

21 posted on 10/10/2015 10:40:45 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: DoughtyOne
Now hold on a second...we are talking about copyright law here. If someone is able to shut down a site/sue, whatever for copyright infringement, then there has to be an injured party willing to sue.

If every blogger declares their material "open source," ... Then what?

22 posted on 10/10/2015 10:42:30 AM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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To: blam
Matt has always been a little ... excitable. Hopefully this is another example. Hopefully!
23 posted on 10/10/2015 10:43:37 AM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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To: blam
This was discussed greatly on an earlier thread.

Basically it was concluded that any online publication would be committing suicide by firewalling its content and not allowing anybody to link to it from the outside.

It's like the recording industry from a decade ago. They though that by shutting down Napster, people were going to go back to purchasing $15 CDs at retail stores.

Didn't work out too well for them.

24 posted on 10/10/2015 10:45:05 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (A businessman gets things done with own money. A politician takes money and gets nothing done.)
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To: FreeAtlanta

And devoid of all conservative thought and discussion.


25 posted on 10/10/2015 10:46:24 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: ponygirl

If you can get them to do it, I would say there should be no problem.

We don’t just quote bloggers here, and there’s a lot of information that bloggers could not provide without reading the in a publication.

So some of our information would stay, but a lot would disappear.

A blogger revealing what he read on a sole source site would still be in trouble for passing on copyrighted information.

I’m not an attorney, but this would be a logical outcome >IMO.


26 posted on 10/10/2015 10:46:44 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: blam

I was wondering if you setup your server in some foreign country would you still be subject to these rules. Example: I play a game that’s run on a server in Malaysia and don’t have any Internet lag issues.


27 posted on 10/10/2015 10:47:03 AM PDT by McGruff (Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
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To: randita
The only reason I go to some of those lame stream rags is because they’re linked from FR or Drudge. Without the hits, those rags will go under as well.

Well said. I was thinking this myself yesterday when I heard the story on Trunews. Without the link-throughs the 'hits' at these corporate media sites will decline significantly and that is the very thing that determines their advertising rates.

Perhaps, in the end, what they intend for evil will be used for good as many of these corporate media sites are no more.

28 posted on 10/10/2015 10:48:06 AM PDT by The Citizen Soldier
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To: buckalfa

Unlike it is now?


29 posted on 10/10/2015 10:50:03 AM PDT by Paladin2 (my non desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I don’t think I’m being clear... I mean a citizen journalist as in what Dustin Ulsterman or James O’Keefe are doing. They are creating their own content, farming their own sources. 100% independent. And allowing their stuff to be linked elsewhere. It’s clicks and revenue for them, so why not? In my opinion, this law will dry up the mainstream news media sources faster than anything else.


30 posted on 10/10/2015 10:50:06 AM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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To: SubMareener

But we never heard this because Drudge said it to the EVIL Alex Jones when Drudge stopped by Jones’ studio in Austin, TX.


I check Alex Jones on YouTube and if he has a guest worth listening to, I’ll see what he or she says.

It’s easy to fast forward to the guest.


31 posted on 10/10/2015 10:51:15 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: blam

I’m not buying it. Shares generate clickthroughs which generate revenue.


32 posted on 10/10/2015 10:51:28 AM PDT by discostu (Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start)
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To: blam

It is all over if they get total control of all our information. The MSM has had TOTAL control of our MS press, until the internet——and that gave us a little window to get the Truth out——but now we are descending into the Dark Ages if this is allowed to happen.

The MSM has been controlling our emotions and desires and worldview for generations now-——to destroy the Christian Worldview-—the only one which created Individualism and Natural Rights from only God.

They want total control of every idea your child has so they are “happy slaves” of the State. This is for the Collective Mind——the NWO of mass slavery that George Bush Sr. stated WOULD HAPPEN, the total slavery of the masses by a few elites—our satanic sodomite masters.


33 posted on 10/10/2015 10:51:32 AM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: ponygirl
If every blogger declares their material "open source," ... Then what?

Apple, Google, Amazon, etc. are trying to create captive audiences. This works particularly well if the government steps in to make it financially prohibitive to operate outside their spheres of influence.

Apple, Android, and Amazon's b@stardized Android that runs Kindle will push the masses to "legit" sources for news, entertainment, etc. That means Facebook, Wall Street Journal, CNN, etc. Not Free Republic, Drudge Report, and Rush Limbaugh.

The goal is to make it difficult to go outside of these acceptable "mainstream" sources of Internet content. The few who will jail break their devices will be able to access that "open source" blogging content you refer to...assuming those bloggers haven't been regulated out of existence.

I don't believe this captive audience plan will work...just that each of the big players is trying to grab a large chunk of the online sheeple and make it difficult for the flock to go elsewhere.

34 posted on 10/10/2015 10:53:13 AM PDT by peyton randolph (I am not a number. I am a free man.)
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To: mkjessup
"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? ;)"

No.

But, it was when the Chinese marched into Berlin in 1945.

35 posted on 10/10/2015 10:54:30 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: mkjessup

Lol


36 posted on 10/10/2015 10:54:54 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: savagesusie

Well put. You nailed it very well.


37 posted on 10/10/2015 10:55:52 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: ponygirl

That’s an interesting take. You could be right about that.


38 posted on 10/10/2015 10:56:02 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: ponygirl

We will write our news on the bathroom walls.
And then go back to a modem and BB.


39 posted on 10/10/2015 10:56:06 AM PDT by Darroll
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To: blam

The central comity will control truth and elections.


40 posted on 10/10/2015 10:56:24 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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