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Gag the internet

MsSage

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Yeap change we can believe in ...................
When it comes to the First Amendment, Team Obama believes in Global Chilling.

Cass Sunstein, a Harvard Law professor who has been appointed to a shadowy post that will grant him powers that are merely mind-boggling, explicitly supports using the courts to impose a "chilling effect" on speech that might hurt someone's feelings. He thinks that the bloggers have been rampaging out of control and that new laws need to be written to corral them.

Advance copies of Sunstein's new book, "On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done," have gone out to reviewers ahead of its September publication date, but considering the prominence with which Sunstein is about to be endowed, his worrying views are fair game now. Sunstein is President Obama's choice to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. It's the bland titles that should scare you the most.

"Although obscure," reported the Wall Street Journal, "the post wields outsize power. It oversees regulations throughout the government, from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Obama aides have said the job will be crucial as the new administration overhauls financial-services regulations, attempts to pass universal health care and tries to forge a new approach to controlling emissions of greenhouse gases."

Sunstein was appointed, no doubt, off the success of "Nudge," his previous book, which suggests that government ought to gently force people to be better human beings.

Czar is too mild a world for what Sunstein is about to become. How about "regulator in chief"? How about "lawgiver"? He is Obama's Obama.

In "On Rumors," Sunstein reviews how views get cemented in one camp even when people are presented with persuasive evidence to the contrary. He worries that we are headed for a future in which "people's beliefs are a product of social networks working as echo chambers in which false rumors spread like wildfire." That future, though, is already here, according to Sunstein. "We hardly need to imagine a world, however, in which people and institutions are being harmed by the rapid spread of damaging falsehoods via the Internet," he writes. "We live in that world. What might be done to reduce the harm?"

Sunstein questions the current libel standard - which requires proving "actual malice" against those who write about public figures, including celebrities. Mere "negligence" isn't libelous, but Sunstein wonders, "Is it so important to provide breathing space for damaging falsehoods about entertainers?" Celeb rags, get ready to hire more lawyers

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07112009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/gag_the_internet__178749.htm

Can I say I told you our rights are being taken away????????
 

Tam

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reader (the Second) said:
Yeah, I agree with you Sage. The UK was wrong to finally wake up and stop the Muslim clerics from inciting hate in rallies and on the Internet.

See, this is a double edged sword, a fine line, little lady.

And the article you just posted and how you mindlessly embrace and echo hateful propaganda is a good example of ugly distortions and lies. There are things on PB that are not so far from inciting hate crimes, as our law enforcement member has repeatedly pointed out.

Isn't our law enforcement member the one posting most of the hate filled posts on PB? If he and you as far as that goes want to stop them maybe you should leader by example. Or is this another do as I say not as I do things? :? :roll:
 

Mike

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as our law enforcement member has repeatedly pointed out.

Your touted "Law" enforcement member is by far the biggest liar on this forum, as has been pointed out many, many times.

The defense of him doesn't say much about your standards either. :roll:
 
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