From Banning Books to Banning Blogs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2518087/posts
http://reason.com/archives/2010/05/18/from-banning-books-to-banning
Two snippets:
The Obama administration has announced plans to regulate the Internet through the Federal Communications Commission, extending its authority over broadband providers to police web traffic, enforcing “net neutrality.” [snip]
The bill, however, would radically redefine how the FEC regulates political commentary. A section of the DISCLOSE Act would exempt traditional media outlets from coordination regulations, but the exemption does not include bloggers, only “a communication appearing in a news story, commentary, or editorial distributed through the facilities of any broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine or other periodical publication…” [snip]
Leave Them Tubes Alone [Townhall.com ^ | May 21, 2010 | David Harsanyi]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2518091/posts
“In a 2001 interview (one that only recently has gone viral and caused a brouhaha), Cass Sunstein, now the nation’s regulatory czar, is overheard advocating for government to insist all websites offer opposing viewpoints — or, in other words, a “Fairness” Doctrine for the Web.”
[Sunstein added that they should be willing to mandate speech regulation. He later backed out because the internet was more complicated than he first thought. Others have not — one being justice nominee, Kagan the Wacko. Next about her.]
Kagan and Sunstein Aim to Censor Free Speech: Web, Books, Radio
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2516189/posts
Just to give an idea of what kind of speech Kagan would favor, the silent screams of 90% born babies are due to her:
Kagan Helped Craft Clinton Strategy for Blocking Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2515316/posts
Kagan: “Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness.”
Kagan vs. Free Speech:
Explosive Report Shows Kagan Supports Censorship of TV, Radio, Posters and Pamphlets
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2511409/posts
Elena Kagan: Government Can Ban Political Pamphlets
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2510753/posts
Kagan: Some speech can be ‘disappeared’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2510836/posts
Kagan Argued for Government ‘Redistribution of Speech’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2512714/posts
Kagan hired Obama man who wants to censor Net
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2516654/posts
Kagan and the Cass Sunstein Connection
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2517511/posts
When it comes to anti-information: Clinton Library Says it May Not Produce Kagan Docs in Time for Hearing
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-kagan-schedule-20100520,0,7114784.story
Kagan Wants to Impose Her Values on Your Speech
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2516726/posts
Nachum has been hard at it with Kagan research
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2511610/posts
http://www.nachumlist.com/Kagan.htm
Bottom Line: Kagan could be the deciding vote to resurrect the Kelo ‘Justices’ and end free speech.