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Free Speech Attack: The 19 Senators Who Voted to Censor the Net
Atlas Shrugs ^ | 28 Nov 2010 | Pam Geller

Posted on 11/28/2010 8:10:04 PM PST by combat_boots

The Senators who had the unmitigated gall to vote for the COICA bill (Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act) violate our basic fundamental right to free speech. The net is the final frontier for truth and free speech. The cost is great: lots of lies and liars and Soros-funded propagandists -- but so what?

Techdirt explains: (hat tip Katherine)

First off, the bill would allow the Justice Department to take down an entire website, effectively creating a blacklist, akin to just about every internet censoring regime out there. Now, it is true that there is a judicial process involved. The original bill had two lists, one that involved the judicial review, and one that did not (it was a "watch list," which "encouraged" ISPs and registrars to block -- meaning they would block them). However, everyone seems sure that the second list will not be included in any final bill. Even so, there are serious problems with the way the bill works. Case law around the First Amendment is pretty clear that you cannot block a much wider variety of speech,

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KEYWORDS: 1a; coica; freedom; internet
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To: yarddog
Odd as Jeff Sessions is generally regarded as the most conservative member of the Senate.

No, that title belongs to DeMint.

21 posted on 11/28/2010 9:14:40 PM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Kerry must have been absent that day, sipping
red wine on his yacht in Newport. Hopefully
he’ll spend the next 12 months there.


22 posted on 11/28/2010 9:15:59 PM PST by MissyMack66 (ROMNEY SUCKS: don't be fooled like we were in MA.)
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To: ViLaLuz

He’s my Senator and he is a piece of garbage.


23 posted on 11/28/2010 10:18:04 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

We have known for years that ethanol won’t work. There have been a lot of studies done on it.


24 posted on 11/28/2010 10:19:26 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: freekitty

Well, Mr. Ed (Senator Grassley) probably knows that, too. However, he’s no doubt getting donations from Big Ag.


25 posted on 11/28/2010 10:26:35 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Muslims are not the problem, the rest of the world is! /s)
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To: yarddog

I wonder what happened to Sessions. He’s usually a conservative...must be a reason...?????


26 posted on 11/29/2010 1:39:53 AM PST by goat granny
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To: combat_boots
Orrin Hatch and Lindsay Graham.

Come 2012, there is a reckoning to be had.

27 posted on 11/29/2010 2:58:58 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: WestwardHo

The dirty rat, he’s gotta go too.


28 posted on 11/29/2010 5:02:18 AM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: combat_boots

sfl


29 posted on 11/29/2010 5:55:10 AM PST by phockthis
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To: combat_boots
Amy Klobuchar -- Minnesota •Al Franken -- Minnesota

This surprises me not at all. We flipped both houses of our legislature this year and the Witless Wonder is up in 2012. Then it's all hands on deck for Stuart Smalley in 2014. We WILL clean house.

30 posted on 11/29/2010 5:56:48 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("I'd rather lose fighting for the right cause than win fighting for the wrong cause." - Jim DeMint)
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To: Colonel_Flagg; Arrowhead1952; mylife; NYTexan; TheMom; Eaker; El Gato; MEG33; Allegra; ...
The 19 Senators Who Voted to Censor the Net...

John Cornyn -- Texas!!!!??

What th'! Now, that DOES surprise me! I guess I know who to boot out next session! I guess he is a closet liberal when I thought I had voted for a conservative last time around!

Angry Texan Ping!

31 posted on 11/29/2010 6:59:12 AM PST by luvie (Atlas has shrugged)
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To: LUV W
John Cornyn -- Texas!!!!??

Let's get a true conservative to run against him in the primary and kick his @$$ out.

I think we're stuck with him until 2014...

32 posted on 11/29/2010 7:14:08 AM PST by Allegra (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: LUV W

Sen Cornyn is looking to get his rear end booted in the next election.


33 posted on 11/29/2010 7:25:29 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (De fund the TSA.)
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To: LUV W

I with you, this really does surprise me.


34 posted on 11/29/2010 7:40:42 AM PST by TheMom (I wish mosquitoes sucked fat instead of blood.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Looks like he just cooked his goose on this one. I hope it
becomes common knowledge before election time rolls around
for him!


35 posted on 11/29/2010 7:45:32 AM PST by luvie (Atlas has shrugged)
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To: Allegra

Yep...afraid we are, but that gives us plenty of time to
build a case against his butt! He turns out to be as
brainless as the other closet libs!


36 posted on 11/29/2010 7:47:50 AM PST by luvie (Atlas has shrugged)
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To: TheMom

Up to this tipping point, I thought he wanted the best for
Texans. Not so, it seems!

Kick his butt right out!


37 posted on 11/29/2010 7:49:13 AM PST by luvie (Atlas has shrugged)
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To: yarddog

that’s an oxymoron...

no one elected in office is a true conservative.


38 posted on 11/29/2010 7:49:58 AM PST by surfer (To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
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