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Jay Rockefeller: Internet should have never existed [censorship alert]
YouTube ^ | 3/20/09 | Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)

Posted on 03/23/2009 11:23:09 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9xzXUQLuY


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: achillwind; algoresfault; america2point0; censorship; fairnessdoctrine; internet; jayrockefeller; orwelliannightmare
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Searched but didn't see this previously posted.

Yet another avenue of attack for those who want to stifle opposition in creation of their dystopian police state.

1 posted on 03/23/2009 11:23:10 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Gee how would you have ever stopped Al Gore inventing it? (lol)


2 posted on 03/23/2009 11:25:46 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Does he allow his wife to drive and talk with friends? Our does his desire for control just cover the world outside his home?


3 posted on 03/23/2009 11:26:13 AM PDT by twigs
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To: NewJerseyJoe

I understand his concern....sort of like Al Capone hating the IRS.


4 posted on 03/23/2009 11:29:45 AM PDT by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Australia’s Vast, Scattershot Censorship Blacklist Revealed

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/19/2321259

Australia’s secretive Internet filter blacklist held by its communications watchdog has been leaked, revealing the government has understated the amount of banned Web pages by more than 1000.


5 posted on 03/23/2009 11:32:01 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: twigs; martin_fierro; GQuagmire
He seems to have forgotten what the Internet is for.
6 posted on 03/23/2009 11:32:42 AM PDT by JRios1968 (The real first rule of Fight Club: Do not invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

He agrees it was a stupid thing to say. It was nearly as stupid when he e-mailed the democratic plan to destroy Bush out to everyone.If it hadn’t been for the major networks running cover for him, this tool would already be history. This is one more example of why we need to use this medium to expose these tools.


7 posted on 03/23/2009 11:33:14 AM PDT by Steamburg ( Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Not really what he said. He said [paraphrasing] ‘perhaps it would have been better if the internet had never been invented’. Subtle difference ... wishful thinking perhaps.


8 posted on 03/23/2009 11:33:20 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: NewJerseyJoe

I think he means that the internet should only be used by ‘people of quality’.
A true chip off the block from old John D. I’d sure be grateful if he flipped me a dime for a shoe shine.


9 posted on 03/23/2009 11:35:21 AM PDT by Leg Olam (my gurlfrnd syas my tyipgns as goood as my sex)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Yeah Rockey keep the pubic ignorant so you thieves can take over the country..Sorry you lose we won’t let that happen..I think if you want to do something good you should keep that ignorant VP and his pal BO locked up so they can’t make you look like the fools you are..


10 posted on 03/23/2009 11:37:24 AM PDT by PLD
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To: TET1968
I understand his concern....sort of like Al Capone hating the IRS.

I find myself in agreement with Al Capone.

11 posted on 03/23/2009 11:40:31 AM PDT by upsdriver
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The Internet started out as a means for scientists in the Defense Department and the universities to share and discuss their research (the ARPANET).

So maybe he would prefer the carrier pigeon and the pony express?

12 posted on 03/23/2009 11:41:55 AM PDT by BusterBear
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Freedom of association and free flow of information has always been deadly to tyrannies.

No wonder Rockerfeller doesn’t like it.


13 posted on 03/23/2009 11:42:08 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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To: Lorianne

I can’t youtoob at the office but I’d wager that the mindset isn’t that the internet is “evil”, it is just that the “public” should never have been granted access or permitted to know it existed (which it had for DECADES).

Students in technical fields got their exposure generally by college (I first saw it in 1983).


14 posted on 03/23/2009 11:50:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("I certainly hope he (Bush) doesnÂ’t succeed" - Democratic strategist James Carville 9-11-2001)
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Ahhh...but it was and by the illustrious Al Gore. Ha,ha. It’s great it was invented...it has given the public an insight as to what has been going on behind our backs for years. No longer, Jay. The public sees and remembers. We are ALL aware now. Kinda scary huh? I’d LOVE to see them talk censorship of the Internet. They think they have problems now with the public and tea parties and the like. NO ONE wants to see the Internet go.


15 posted on 03/23/2009 11:51:19 AM PDT by cubreporter (Rush the greatest voice of CONSERVATISM! God Bless Rush Limbaugh!!!)
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To: upsdriver

As the corrupt Obama administration is showing us, the tax code is not consistently applied to tax cheats.

The government is an organized criminal operation. Same as Capone’s.

It’s one thing when all members of law enforcement are upholding the law, but as soon as a crime figure sees that it isn’t so pure in practice, respect for the law goes out the window. It’s one crime figure making business arrangements with another crime figure (only one gang has higher authority with the public).


16 posted on 03/23/2009 11:53:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("I certainly hope he (Bush) doesnÂ’t succeed" - Democratic strategist James Carville 9-11-2001)
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To: NewJerseyJoe
Ultimately, this has as much to do with government control of the internet through a series of taxes designed to raise revenue as it does with censorship. However, silencing free speech, especially political free speech, is a major goal of the liberal establishment and what motivates the lefts ongoing activism.
17 posted on 03/23/2009 11:54:43 AM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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Rockefeller only wishes he could burn the internet...

...ideas can be such dangerous things...

18 posted on 03/23/2009 11:55:12 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

This asshat is a poster boy for birth control.


19 posted on 03/23/2009 12:02:50 PM PDT by mortal19440
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Rockefeller is a tyrant. But this medium was giving to us with the blessing of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. I was dubious at their “information superhighway” press conference way back when, thinking it was just more inane press hoopla and PR.

Couldn’t have been more wrong. That in itself makes Clinton a better president than this monstrosity.


20 posted on 03/23/2009 12:07:49 PM PDT by Luke21
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