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Big chill: Feds want to scour Net, media for 'hate speech'
WND ^ | 28 Apr 2014 | AARON KLEIN

Posted on 04/29/2014 6:05:01 AM PDT by shove_it

If two Democratic lawmakers have their way, Barack Obama’s Justice Department will submit a report for action against any Internet sites, broadcast, cable television or radio shows determined to be advocating or encouraging “violent acts.”

This according to the text of a new bill from Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.

The Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014 “would create an updated comprehensive report examining the role of the Internet and other telecommunications in encouraging hate crimes based on gender, race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation and create recommendations to address such crimes,” stated a news release from Markey’s office.

The one-page bill, reviewed by WND, calls for the Justice Department and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to “analyze information on the use of telecommunications, including the Internet, broadcast television and radio, cable television, public access television, commercial mobile services, and other electronic media, to advocate and encourage violent acts and the commission of crimes of hate.”

The bill does not define which actions by broadcasters would be considered to have encouraged violence, seemingly leaving that open to interpretation.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: edmarkey; hakeemjeffries; hatespeech; internetcensorship
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To: Lazamataz; Ramius
I do not expect to be alive this time next year.

Personally, I'd give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?

41 posted on 04/29/2014 8:56:20 AM PDT by null and void ( They don't think think they are above the law. They think they are the law.)
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To: COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; opentalk; ..

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

42 posted on 04/29/2014 9:00:07 AM PDT by null and void ( They don't think think they are above the law. They think they are the law.)
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To: shove_it
Hate crimes against our Government? What happens when Conservatives hold the highest office?

All of you Feds are going to hell, sinners. (That's code for Homo hate speech)

43 posted on 04/29/2014 9:00:12 AM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: shove_it

I consider anything said by Obama, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi to be Hate Speech


44 posted on 04/29/2014 9:03:20 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American - Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: shove_it
The American people have all become criminals overnight.

-PJ

45 posted on 04/29/2014 9:04:41 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

“Let’s party like it’s 1861”

The Party is Over...The best is behind us. America is Slip Sliding Away.


46 posted on 04/29/2014 9:07:06 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: shove_it

“Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself.”

Winston Smith, “1984”


47 posted on 04/29/2014 9:30:03 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: I want the USA back

Where is the justice and equality when the murder of one person is considered worse than that of another based on what group or class that person belongs to?


48 posted on 04/29/2014 9:34:37 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: null and void
Barack Obama’s Justice Department will submit a report for action against any Internet sites, broadcast, cable television or radio shows determined to be advocating or encouraging “violent acts.”

Just swell. And if they don't find what they're looking for they'll just make it up to prove you're guilty.

49 posted on 04/29/2014 9:35:27 AM PDT by azishot
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To: null and void

Did you see they are wanting to cram “Internet IDs” down all our throats....

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/NSTICstrategy_041511.pdf

So they want an ID that can be traced back to an actual person if you post a comment online, but it is a bridge too far to be asking for a photo ID when going to pull the lever for these tyrants every november....?????

So would linking the new “Internet ID” to “Internet Voting” be racist?


50 posted on 04/29/2014 10:17:06 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: GraceG
Worth repeating:

So they want an ID that can be traced back to an actual person if you post a comment online, but it is a bridge too far to be asking for a photo ID when going to pull the lever for these tyrants every November....?????

51 posted on 04/29/2014 10:50:14 AM PDT by null and void ( They don't think think they are above the law. They think they are the law.)
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To: Lazamataz; Farmer Dean

You had me worried there. I wasn’t sure how to take what you said.


52 posted on 04/29/2014 11:10:57 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: unixfox

I’m probably going to be dead from natural causes (with a little nudge from a microdrone) within the next 7 minutes to 6 weeks.


53 posted on 04/29/2014 11:11:58 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Hattie
How about a microphone in our houses and cars?

Got a cell phone? How about a laptop with a webcam built in? Do your kids have one of the new Xboxen? If you have any of those, then your home and car are already bugged. It's just a matter of a couple mouse clicks to turn them on remotely. That is unless you know how to tame those devices apart and disable the offending hardware at the layer 1 level. Sure, the workplace might not have much use for us old solder jockies now that it's cheaper to replace than repair electronics, but we still have our uses.

54 posted on 04/29/2014 11:14:30 AM PDT by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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To: shove_it

I propose imprisonment for any legislators who propose or vote for legislation that is plainly unconstitutional or designed to circumvent clear constitutional limitations on government power. And a permanent revocation of their right to run for office or to vote.


55 posted on 04/29/2014 11:19:15 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: shove_it
Trolling for crimes?

Everyone's a suspect for something?

Shouldn't they be waiting for a probable cause, like some private citizen reporting a crime?

-PJ

56 posted on 04/29/2014 11:22:07 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Billthedrill

That’s the ticket! My guess is 95% of all legislator who held office in the past hundred years would be caught in that net.


57 posted on 04/29/2014 11:39:57 AM PDT by shove_it (long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of Obama's America)
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To: shove_it

Revolt is coming!


58 posted on 04/29/2014 11:42:11 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: shove_it

Time to double-triple the duct tape over the puter camera before saluting 0’s government.


59 posted on 04/29/2014 3:15:01 PM PDT by bgill
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To: null and void

so are we going to do an office pool????


60 posted on 04/29/2014 3:47:16 PM PDT by Nifster
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