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BLOGGERS SCORE CBS VICTORY - Hillary's 1998 Take on Internet Bloggers (Future Free Speech Alert)
The Ethical Spectacle ^ | March 1998

Posted on 09/15/2004 8:57:09 AM PDT by AWestCoaster

NO GATEKEEPING

Our president's latest scandal was broken by Internet columnist Matt Drudge, who reported that Newsweek had spiked a story about Monica Lewinsky.

Some people see that as a black eye for the print media and a victory for the Internet. Not First Lady Hillary Clinton, who was asked about the Net's role in dissemination of news at a press conference on February 11.

"As exciting as these new developments are there are a number of serious issues without any kind of editing function or gate-keeping function. What does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation, or to respond to what someone says? There used to be this old saying that the lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on. Well, today, the lie can be twice around the world before the truth gets out of bed to find its boots. I mean, it is just beyond imagination what can be disseminated."

Clinton was asked whether she favored regulation of the Net. She said she didn't yet know, but commented:

Anytime an individual or an institution or an invention leaps so far out ahead of that balance [contemplated by the Founders] and throws a system, whatever it might be -- political, economic, technological -- out of balance, you've got a problem, because then it can lead to the oppression of people's rights, it can lead to the manipulation of information, it can lead to all kinds of bad outcomes which we have seen historically. So we're going to have to deal with that." ....

(Excerpt) Read more at spectacle.org ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2014election; 2016election; blogger; cbs; censorship; clinton; dictatorship; election2014; election2016; hillary; hillarytruthfile; internet; napalminthemorning; netneutrality; scandal
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1 posted on 09/15/2004 8:57:10 AM PDT by AWestCoaster
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To: AWestCoaster

This is the same woman who suggested a national I.D. card program. Look for computers to come with built-in card readers if she gets elected in 2008.


2 posted on 09/15/2004 9:03:12 AM PDT by scuret (The only consolation would be seeing Bill Clinton as the First Man of the United States)
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To: AWestCoaster
Leave it to Shrillary to be concerned about "gatekeeping" and not the truth.

God help us if the Left tries to regulate the Internet. Then we'll have no more freedom of speech than the Communist Chinese.

3 posted on 09/15/2004 9:03:57 AM PDT by Prime Choice (The Religion of Peace ISN'T.)
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To: AWestCoaster

Gentlemen! We must do something! Immediately! We've got to protect our phoney baloney jobs! Harumph harumph!


4 posted on 09/15/2004 9:07:52 AM PDT by Huck (What's the typography, Kenneth?)
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To: AWestCoaster
"As exciting as these new developments are there are a number of serious issues without any kind of editing function or gate-keeping function...."

"Editing function" - an euphemism for misinformation, spin, or mislead.

"Gate-keeping function" - We need someone to censor the news.

"There used to be this old saying that the lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on. Well, today, the lie can be twice around the world before the truth gets out of bed to find its boots."

IIRC, the quote is attributed to Winston Churchill you wench. Churchill would not approve of you.

5 posted on 09/15/2004 9:12:18 AM PDT by demlosers (The FreeRepublic Pajama Press!)
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To: AWestCoaster

About three years ago Cass Sunstein wrote a book called Republic.Com, with gushy cover blurbs from Ted Kennedy and other liberals, advocating government control of the Internet to guarantee that Internet users are exposed to multiple points of view. Sunstein is apparently clueless that a site like this does just that - people post all sorts of contrary points of view, more than you get from watching CBS News. Sunstein worried about the fragmentation of opinion, and that the public is not getting a standard unifying dose of daily propaganda from a liberal Walter Cronkite-type. So liberals would very much like to control information on the Internet and suppress or mitigate non-liberal opinion, if only they could figure out how. Until they can do it, they will denigrate the Internet and New Media as much as possible, try to discredit it every way they can. Quite simply, many liberals want a monopoly in the media.


6 posted on 09/15/2004 9:15:42 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Huck

A great Mel Brooks movie quote. Unfortunately this whole matter isn't really very funny. A major news network aids and abets in trying to influence a Presidential election.


7 posted on 09/15/2004 9:16:33 AM PDT by Retired Navy Chief (retired Navy)
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To: AWestCoaster
HIllary's Secret War

She Who Must Not Be Named intends all of these things, and more.

Don't make me post Her.

8 posted on 09/15/2004 9:17:45 AM PDT by Old Sarge (ZOT 'em all, let MOD sort 'em out!)
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To: Prime Choice

Maybe that is when the new American civil war will happen. When the leftists attempt to take away our guns AND our internet freedoms.


9 posted on 09/15/2004 9:19:23 AM PDT by Capricam
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To: AWestCoaster

Hillary doesn't have to worry; the majority of the media will defend and propagate her and her husband's lies without question. That's what she really wants. Her pig of a husband and his minions smeared Kenneth Starr for three years with the full cooperation of the media.


10 posted on 09/15/2004 9:21:01 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle
"Quite simply, many liberals want a monopoly in the media."

And no eye contact from the peasants.

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11 posted on 09/15/2004 9:21:48 AM PDT by TYVets
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To: demlosers
If Churchill said that then it was quality plagerism.

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
12 posted on 09/15/2004 9:22:35 AM PDT by Sterlis
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To: Sterlis
If Churchill said that then it was quality plagerism.

An error in recollection. I suspect Twain also wouldn't think nice thoughts about Hillary.

I should have Goooooooogled...before I boooobooo'd.
; ^)

13 posted on 09/15/2004 9:30:32 AM PDT by demlosers (The FreeRepublic Pajama Press!)
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To: AWestCoaster
"Anytime an individual or an institution or an invention leaps so far out ahead of that balance...

WE are out of balance????

14 posted on 09/15/2004 9:32:55 AM PDT by TheWyzzyrd (Red is grey and yellow white, but we decide which is right.. and which is an illusion. (Moody Blues))
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To: Sterlis
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

And it's even more true today. The lies (both Clinton's and CBS's) were all the way around the world before the truth caught up to them.

Gatekeepers! We don't need no stinkin gatekeepers!

15 posted on 09/15/2004 9:35:08 AM PDT by eggman (CBS Lied -- the Kerry Campaign Died)
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To: Sterlis

See - your post is a perfect example of fact-checking in the blogosphere.

Great, rational sentiment is posted. I presume you googled to see if the quote was accurate and with whom it originated, and voila! (voy-lah as they say in Rio Linda) the truth surfaces and the "editing" (albeit now a very public and very collaborative function) is properly accomplished.

This is actually a wonderful and FAIR revision of the pseudo "consensus" nonsense that I have seen foisted on groups by people who have or want to control a situation. As previously practiced, the group was manipulated into settling for (by "consensus") what the power brokers wanted in the first place. But the blogosphere allows everyone to be equal and removes the power brokers from their priveleged pedestal - yet "consensus" is truly achieved!

The blogosphere allows people to truly filter through the information, fact-check, and reach a group conclusion, with EVERYONE having an opportunity to post and provide information for fact checking and to weigh in on where the truth is.



16 posted on 09/15/2004 9:51:06 AM PDT by Notwithstanding
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To: Capricam
Maybe that is when the new American civil war will happen. When the leftists attempt to take away our guns AND our internet freedoms.

Loads of people thought the new civil war would happen when the government started confiscating guns. Well, the government started confiscating legally-purchased guns (under the guise of "buy-back" programs and new "assault weapons" laws) back in the '90s. No revolt then.

The loss of liberties is something that is always done piecemeal and never recognized until long after nothing can be done about it.

In short, if the people aren't rising up now, they never will.

17 posted on 09/15/2004 9:54:38 AM PDT by Prime Choice (The Religion of Peace ISN'T.)
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To: Notwithstanding
"The blogosphere allows people to truly filter through the information, fact-check, and reach a group conclusion, with EVERYONE having an opportunity to post and provide information for fact checking and to weigh in on where the truth is."

I agree with all this except the part about reaching a group conclusion; we don't always do that, nor should we. But I agree that forums like this allow for much more fact checking than passively sitting in front of your TV and listening to Dan Rather. And people here DO care about the truth - comments like, "Is that true?" and "What's the source?" or "You can't trust DEBKA" are standard around here. And liberals would be amazed that Freepers do not lap up every comment by Hannity and O'Reilly and Rush as gospel; all of those guys have strong critics here.
18 posted on 09/15/2004 10:00:15 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: AWestCoaster

Yep, this pig is truly a pig.

My apologies to any swine I may have offended by comparing them to this evil commie pig.


19 posted on 09/15/2004 10:36:56 AM PDT by 50 Cal (Next time you think nobody cares if you exist just don't pay the IRS!)
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To: Notwithstanding; Sterlis
See - your post is a perfect example of fact-checking in the blogosphere.

And -- check it out -- both posts mixed editorial sentiment in with the news content. Just like the networks.

20 posted on 09/15/2004 10:48:30 AM PDT by laredo44 (Liberty is not the problem)
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