Once again stepping on freedom of speech.
We know Free Republic is at the very least scanned by the Big Media, I have seen us be parroted by the Alphabet Soup Networks.
You know we are the Stasi's Target list as well.
Couldn’t Drudge just pay the link fees like other suppliers and mitigate this?
So, what of the ethical rules that a judge should not be opining on a case before it is brought before them and the evidence is presented with legal arguments as to the application of law?
The Supreme Court Justice nominees use that excuse during confirmation to avoid answering questions, why is it all right for them to opine on matter not yet before them once they are on the bench?
Also, if they are so busy with their current case load, how can they have time to poll the court members about cases not before them?
I think the Justices who have opined about this issue that is not before them must recuse themselves - but we all know the answer to that, don’t we?
We have no due process, we have no Constitution, and we have not moral background to continue to run as a republic.
Any "news" outlet, by definition, distributes NEWS. When that distribution is self-restricted, then it is not ME with the head in the sand. It is the news organization talking from a dark hole in the sand. And most of these want you to sign up to get their news...putting their profits ahead of the definition of their profession. I CHOOSE not to support such "news" outlets. I do not avoid listening to news...I CHOOSE to frequent ALL news sources that are open and not self-restricting...and I CHOOSE not to frequent a "news organization" that demonstrates self-imposed restriction of news.
The introduction of ultra restrictive “copy right” laws will
spawn a for-profit surveillance state, driven by trial lawyers and social media monopolists.
Beeee, Esssssss.
When I was a child in the late 40’s and 50’s, and into the 60’s, the Big Three networks controlled all the information the American people received. Cable and the internet put an end to that, and we are much better informed now than we were.
I haven’t studied this issue at all, but superficially I think this means, if implemented, instead of Drudge and the like, there will have to be conservative versions of the Huffington Post, with it’s own reporters and news stories. Science reporters can give “the other” side of global warming, abortion gov’t regulation, etc. Forgetting that the Huffington Post is liberal, it isn’t that bad as a place where libs can go to get their talking points.
We need one, regardless. Interested?
Jim, correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t you already prohibit linking from FR to any website which asks that you do so??
It won’t be long before the GOPe has had enough of Rush and sides with the dumbocraps to ram fairness in broadcasting through full bore once and for all.
Love Drudge, but his relationship with Alex Jones is causing him to become a little dramatic.
Citizens past by the millions defended our free speech against enemies with blood we will do the same.. we will defend our free speech against enemies with blood..
our free speech, their blood.
No news as we know it, at all. Only sounds coming from mosques and megaphones from vehicles running thru the neighborhoods or flying over dropping leaflets.
So the “fair use doctrine” of copyright law is dead? That will never work.
bump
I have to believe this is Bovine S but maybe they’ll try.
So will the pamphleteer, and the samizdat writers come back into their own, and small newspapers come back into it.
Newspapers are causing this as they try to control the message and the fake news.
Re-model the concept to street reporters and blogs.... everywhere. Blogs who WANT to be linked but blogs who carry accuracy in their reportage. That’s the way to fight this.
I think this bears repeating ;
FReeRepublic doesn’t drive Me to Other sites,
it directs Me to the sounds of a Battle.
BTTT
Yahoo and Google have the money to buy the right to use headlines from mainstream media outlets. It won’t hurt them. It will help advance their dark agenda without the light of day.
It is be the “man on the street” (the elite’s hated uppity people in their p.j’s) who will be forbidden to list headlines, link articles and discuss, politically incorrectly, social, economic and political affairs.
They will probably all lose hits to their websites as the Internet will no longer be useful to people who are accustomed to it’s current freedom around corporate and government brainwashing. The public’s resentment towards the mainstream news outlets, Google and Yahoo will rise.
It will be interesting to see how Americans get around this effort to stifle their thought, debates and knowledge by the biggie bigs. They have to end American free speech as they have done in Europe and China. We keep messing up the global government (via exposing the climate change lie, for example) and National and global police state “progress”, AI developments, etc. by exposing it and discussing it’s dark implications for the US and humanity in general. Things are getting weirder and weirder, Jim.
Start squirreling away as much money now, while you can. I will be donating for this quarter’s fund raising soon. God Bless. Our Nation needs Him, big time, everyday and even more so now.