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13 House Democrats offer bill demanding government study on Internet hate speech
TheHill/Drudge ^ | 16 Jan 2014 | Pete Kasperowicz

Posted on 01/17/2014 6:00:53 AM PST by shove_it

Thirteen House Democrats have proposed legislation that would require the government to study hate speech on the Internet, mobile phones and television and radio.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and 12 other House Democrats, would look at how those media are used to "advocate and encourage violent acts and the commission of crimes of hate."

The Hate Crime Reporting Act, H.R. 3878, is meant to update a 20-year-old study from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). That study, delivered to Congress in 1993, looked at hate speech on radio, TV and computer bulletin board

Jeffries says the NTIA needs to see how hate speech is transmitted over the various new modes of communication that have sprung up over the last two decades...

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hakeemjeffries; hatespeech; internethatespeech
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To: shove_it
In a related story: 13 Republican House members introduced legislation banning hate speech by the House Democratic Caucus. /sarc
21 posted on 01/17/2014 6:25:26 AM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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To: shove_it

Could also be titled: “13 Democrats running to a camera saying ‘Me, Me, Me. Look at me!”


22 posted on 01/17/2014 6:27:40 AM PST by IamConservative (The soul of my lifes journey is Liberty!)
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To: shove_it

Hate speech is anything that offends liberals.


23 posted on 01/17/2014 6:37:31 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters (RINOs: Not one dollar, not one vote.)
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To: AU72

The damn Muslims are probably pushing it.


24 posted on 01/17/2014 6:41:34 AM PST by ZULU (Magua is sitting in the Oval Office. Ted Cruz/Phil Robertson in 2016.)
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To: Mich Patriot

I HATE DEMOCRATS!
(Just trying to help with the study.)

I’ll second that (to help with their study) and it’s getting worse every day.


25 posted on 01/17/2014 7:11:46 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: cripplecreek

I have a strong feeling that someone named Hakeem isn’t worried about that 200 year old parchment.


26 posted on 01/17/2014 7:14:45 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The End)
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To: shove_it

In other words, shut down 4chan.


27 posted on 01/17/2014 7:17:03 AM PST by struggle
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To: shove_it

In other words, shut down 4chan.


28 posted on 01/17/2014 7:17:03 AM PST by struggle
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To: GSWarrior

It is called censorship.


29 posted on 01/17/2014 7:18:09 AM PST by EBH ( The Day of the Patriot has arrived.)
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To: shove_it
Hate speech on the internet and the airwaves?

Are they going to start with the DUmp, Daily KOokS, and pretty much the entire MSLSD programming schedule?!

These define the word 'vile'.

30 posted on 01/17/2014 7:31:55 AM PST by mellow velo
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To: shove_it

And so it begins. The systematic destruction of the internet to prevent the masses from learning what they don’t want us to know. And to shut us up, of course, since political correctness has become such a joke.


31 posted on 01/17/2014 8:28:05 AM PST by jespasinthru (Proud member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy)
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To: shove_it

Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2]* 01/15/201 - He’s a flamer on an epic scale. I hear around these parts his “husband” specializes in producing commercial porn videos that depict straight males succumbing to homosexual advances. I’m serious.

So we have Sen. Baldwin - the lesbian and Rep. Pocan the homo due to the huge numbers of queens and fairies that flocked to Madison in the 1980’s - so that must be what they’re talking about with this “hate” horseshit. People with things they’d like hidden like to control speech.


32 posted on 01/17/2014 8:35:19 AM PST by februus
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To: shove_it

Please remember, hate is literally “in the eye of the beholder”. What one person can argue as a moral issue another can declare to be “hate”. The Bible is a hate speech document to militant gays.

This entire line of thinking (to remove “hate” speech from public discourse) is just a thinly veiled attack on free speech. The main point of free speech is “who decides?” on what should be allowed...this is just another step in the direction of the politically correct saying, “we do”. Mentioning “Jesus” publicly is “offensive”, you have teachers that really think it is not allowed to say his name in school.

I swear we’re doomed...it can’t see an end to this madness. At some point somebody very innocent is going to be found “guilty” of something and punished to an extreme. At which point we’ll have to start making a decision....


33 posted on 01/17/2014 8:37:49 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: shove_it

So there going to shut down NBCCBSABDCNNMSNBC?.


34 posted on 01/17/2014 10:00:26 AM PST by Vaduz
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