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China operates the world’s most elaborate and opaque system of Internet censorship. But Congress, under pressure to take action against the theft of intellectual property, is considering misguided legislation that would strengthen China’s Great Firewall and even bring major features of it to America. The legislation — the Protect IP Act, which has been introduced in the Senate, and a House version known as the Stop Online Piracy Act — have an impressive array of well-financed backers, including the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Motion Picture Association of America, the American Federation of Musicians, the Directors Guild of America,...

Brad Feld tweeted this web site, and Fred Wilson blogged about it. After viewing this video, I support it. PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. Here is a link to the website if you would like to support American Censorship Day too. I appreciate the sentiment of Hollywood and the music industry. People download stuff off of the internet without paying for it. Artists should get paid for things they produce-but the two bills pending before both houses of Congress are the wrong way to go about it. I don’t know the right...

Thank you, dear onyx for posting this great image! Woo hoo!! God, Guns & Country! That's what made America Great! Please keep those donations, cards, letters and checks coming in, folks, so we can continue kicking liberal/progressive/Marxist butt on FR. With wannabee dictator Obama pulling out all the constitutional limits to fundamentally transform America from a free Republic to a third world Marxist hell hole, we need FR now more than ever!! Don't let it happen on our watch!! And don't let the GOP elite push an Obama-lite RINO on us either!! Just say no to RINOs!! Give me...

What do we think of this? I'm not talking about any bannings and whether they were justified or not. What I mean is, showing FR in a negative light like this. It doesn't show us as open minded and most people equate banning to censorship. And well, that doesn't exactly jive with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights we hold so dear. Jim can do what he wants. He owns the site. I moderate a website that my friend owns and it's the same tact we take with trolls and spammers. But we never ban people for simply taking...

Free Republic founder Jim Robinson has a message for supporters of Mitt Romney: go away. In an email to POLITICO this afternoon, Robinson admitted that the site routinely blocks Romney supporters from posting -- and offered no apologies for the practice: Free Republic is a pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-small government, pro-constitution, pro-liberty site. Governor Romney is none of the above. His record is that of an abortionist, gay rights pushing, gun grabbing, global warming advocating, big government, mandate loving, constitution trampling, flip-flopping liberal progressive with no core values. That and the fact that he is the chief architect and advocate...

<p>Our purpose and goal on FR is to restore, defend, preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States and to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity!!</p> <p>The goal of the domestic enemy (the left), i.e., the statist liberals, Marxists and progressives is just the opposite.</p>

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If your going to pull a thread send a broadcast to all responders. It isn't that hard.

Your contributions are appreciated but many here correctly assume that when you post an excerpt to your blog that you're looking for hits for financial gain, especially those of you who rarely comment. A suggestion from this moderator: Post full text from you blog and ask nicely for a hit to your link. Freepers will treat you much more kindly if you heed this advice.

September 2, 2011 There's a lot of good sense behind closing two famous and nearby military hospitals and merging them into the new Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. But just looking at the name reveals both what's good about this merger and what makes it so tricky. Walter Reed was a famous Army doctor, and for more than a century his name was on the Army's iconic hospital in Washington, D.C. Now that hospital is shutting its doors, and Reed's name will go onto the new hospital built on the Navy's flagship medical campus in Bethesda, Md., 6 miles...

I know I made a big deal of not having DSL here at the new house last week, but that's because that's what the phone company told me. Well, I am happy beyond description to report that I (and they) were wrong. I'm back with my old account, with only my location changed. Okay. You can all yell at and make fun of me now. I deserve it. But boy, am I glad to be here to see it!

Question about reading FR on a Kindle. There is a lot of white space on the right when reading FR on my Kindle. Is there anyway to get rid of all the white space so the screen is filled up with text?

PROPOSAL: FREEREPUBLIC Prayer Meeting this Friday night to Saturday Night(1700 Friday until 1700 Saturday).

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I got this e-mail for where I work regarding Blocking of Freerepublic: From: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 8:14 AM To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Subject: Freerepublic.com XX. XXXXXXX: As per our telephone conversation, I cannot provide access to Freerepublic.com. One of analysis tools we utilize to perform checks of sites indicated FR had been or is currently hosting malicious software or serving as an intermediary to domains hosting malicious software. As I stated on the telephone, this does not mean the site is currently hosting anything malicious or serving as an intermediary for malicious sites; rather, it has done so in...

Or during an Obama speech they wonder why you are madly typing ahhhhhhh ummmmmm making fun at idiot Obama on a LIVE thread instead of watching it on TV? Do they realize it helps to not GO INSANE if you do this because Obama is such a infiltrator?Or do you have a spouse that is a LIBERAL? Or a spouse that thinks you are wasting time so you tell them 'HEY REGISTERED, CREATED THE SORE LOSERMEN and FR created the Tea Party. Tell the truth no one knows it's you.

I always SEARCH before I post. I search BOTH TITLES if there are two. There are numerous times that a search does not show an article has posted in a thread and it has. Just a FYI for all ya'll mods out there in moderator land that get snarky. MOVING ON and TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT Where's Obama? Golfing?

As more and more FReepers (old and new alike) post articles, they really need to pay attention to what they are doing. I know there is a need to excerpt many articles, but remember - you have up to 300 words or no more than 1/2 of the article if it is less than 300 words. May I make some basic suggestions when excerpting? In addition to the above mentioned FR guidelines, please copy and paste the "who-what-when..." of the article. Earlier today, someone posted an article about a student getting arrested at school for an item found in his...

I love Mom, apple pie and America! I'm pro-God, pro-Life, pro-Family, pro-Liberty and pro-America! I'm bitterly clinging to my God and my guns! I'm fighting for a return to constitutionally limited government! I detest what the Marxists are doing to my country and I want the America we all know and love back! Free Republic is my home on the Internet! I'm a tea party patriot and I'm ready to ruuuumble! I get all my news and conservative commentary from FR! I post on FR all day, I'd hate to see it go away! ♫ I love FR. ♫...

I have a suggestion for the software. How about a box that pops up when I'm posting that says something to effect of: Attention, you've been clicking from thread to thread, and you're about to reply to a topic that has been dead for 3 years, are you sure you want to look like an idiot? I for one would find it useful. :)