Marxist Senate Democrats try again to censor the Internet (in secrecy)
I told you last month that the corrupt Marxist Democrats (and some Republicans) weren’t done trying to censor the Internet after PIPA and SOPA died. According to The Daily Caller, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will lead his second effort push Internet-regulating (aka censoring) legislation. The bill will be in the form of a “cybersecurity bill” and is expected to be worse than Obama’s original proposal to censor the Internet in May of 2011. Oh, and it’s all being done in secret too.
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Censorship! Facebook removes Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s post destroying Obama over his backdoor amnesty plan
WTF is this China? According to KFYI/AP, Communist like Facebook removed a post in which Arizona Governor Jan Brewer criticized and destroyed Obama’s recent announcement of his back door amnesty plan. The plan is to “limit” the the deportations of illegal immigrants. Facebook is now claiming they “mistakenly” removed the post somehow.
Howard Dean: Bring back the Fairness Doctrine because Americans are stupid
Byyyyyyyah! Another day, another marxist progressive liberal Democrat wants to limit free speech because he thinks Americans are too stupid to make their own decisions if the opinion shows are “propaganda” or actually present facts. The Dean Scream said bring back the Fairness Doctrine because:
You know Americans don’t know what’s going on and therefore the media can have their way with them intellectually
FCC may regulate Internet with net-neutrality on December 22nd
Ho ho ho. Merry Christmas people! The FCC has a Christmas gift in store for you according to The Hill. The FCC may “move forward” on its controversial net-neutrality regulations three days before Christmas. The FCC source confirmed to The Hill that the commission plans to push its December meeting back by a week, meaning it will fall on the 22nd of the December. That’s the same meeting in which analysts say the agency may move forward on its controversial net-neutrality proposal.
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19 Senators voted to censor the Internet including seven Republicans
You’d expect progressive liberal Democrats to vote for censorship of the Internet, but you can’t only blame them anymore. Lame, RINO progressive Republicans also were a part of the 19 Senators to vote to censor the Internet. According to Tech Dirt, the Republicans who voted for this measure include: Jeff Sessions — Alabama, Orrin G. Hatch — Utah, Jon Kyl — Arizona, Chuck Grassley — Iowa, Lindsey Graham — South Carolina,John Cornyn — Texas and Tom Coburn — Oklahoma. That’s seven of the 19 being Republicans voting for this violation of the first amendment. The other twelve were from progressive liberal Marxist Democrats that you would expect to vote for something like this.
Army veteran Charlie Price forced to remove American flag after Memorial Day because of Midwest Realty Management in Wisconsin or face eviction!
First the contact information for Midwest Realty Management in Oshkosh, WI:
Midwest Realty Management
(920) 426-2001
2990 Universal St, #A, Oshkosh, WI 54904
This company is forcing Army Veteran Charlie Price to to remove his American flag display in his Wisconsin apartment the day after Memorial Day, or face eviction! The wife of Charlie Price who is Dawn Price told Fox News that she received a call from officials at Midwest Realty Management early Wednesday indicating that she and her husband, Charlie, would be allowed to continue flying the American flag they’ve had in their window for months through the holiday weekend. The couple had previously been told they had to remove the flag by Saturday or face eviction due to a company policy that bans the display of flags, banners and political or religious materials. As is typical for cowardly progressives like those in charge of this company, officials at Midwest Realty Management, which manages Brookside Apartments, where the Prices live, did not return several messages seeking comment. They did however release a statement saying that company officials said the policy was established to provide a consistent living environment for all residents. Yea, A consistent living environment for all residents unless you display the American flag I guess.
“This policy was developed to insure that we are fair to everyone as we have many residents from diverse backgrounds,” the statement read. “By having a blanket policy of neutrality we have found that we are less likely to offend anyone and the aesthetic qualities of our apartment communities are maintained.”
Congress about to limit political free speech of bloggers – with the DISCLOSE Act
The nutty Glenn Beck sounds about some of his conspiracy theories, the more he turns out to be a prophet. One of the things Beck has been railing on and on about is how the administration and Congress don’t need the Fairness doctorine in order to monitor and censor press and Internet blogs that they don’t deep as “acceptable”. Well guess what? According to Reason.com a congressional hearing exposed an effort to give another agency—the Federal Election Commission (FEC)—unprecedented power to regulate political speech online. At a House Administration Committee hearing last Tuesday, Patton Boggs attorney William McGinley explained that the sloppy statutory language in the “DISCLOSE Act” would extend the FEC’s control over broadcast communications to all “covered communications,” including the blogosphere. The DISCLOSE Act’s purpose, according to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Chris Van Hollen and other “reformers,” is simply to require disclosure of corporate and union political speech after the Supreme Court’s January decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission held that the government could not ban political expenditures by companies, nonprofit groups, and labor unions.
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Feinstein and Durbin now seeking to limit citizen journalism
So this is how the left wing extremists in the Senate plan to get some sort of pay back on people like James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles. According to Riehl World View, in the Senate two key Democrats Diane Feinstein of California and Dick Durbin of Illinois have introduced an amendment that would put citizen journalists at risk, giving protections to only established journalists.
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Democrats lied, transparency died – Hoyer’s remarks on health care not to be debated
From Michelle Malkin:
(WASHINGTON, DC) – In an astonishing acceleration of the stifling of debate and transparency in the House, Democrats tonight voted to adjourn and gag the planned special orders speeches of U.S. Representatives John Carter (R-TX) and Steve King (R-IA).
Carter and King had announced they would discuss Democrat Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s (D-MD) statement that the upcoming health care reform effort would fail if Members were required to read the legislation. House Democrats accordingly silenced floor debate on the issue by voting to close early.
“The Democrats are the majority – for now,” says Carter, House Republican Conference Secretary. “They chose to silence debate on the floor by gagging House Republican Members from using their historical right to speak after the close of the day. But they cannot stop us from speaking and letting the American public know the truth about their ongoing assault against representative democracy.”
And so it begins… FCC crackdown on ‘racist radio’ Welcome to Venezuela
There are ways to get results much like what the Fairness Doctorine would provide, without actually passing a Fairness Doctorine. The FCC has taken an official step toward eliminating the electronic ratings system that are considered “racist”. According to Radio Equalizer:
Arbitron’s Portable People Meter (PPM) provides the first truly accurate system for measuring radio listening. Because it is passive, rather than requiring a diary to be manually maintained, opportunities for cheating have virtually been eliminated.
So now, the Obama controlled FCC is putting pressure on the government to make Arbitron change its measurement tools to ensure PC results, according to Michelle Malkin.
New York Times finally comes out of the closet – admits to killing big Obama/Acorn story before election day
Maureen Dowd is not involved in this incident. There is no plagiarizing involved, just more liberal media hypocrisy and censorship. As if anyone with a brain, or at least anyone who isn’t some far left wing loon knew all along. The, the New York Times has gone on record to admit that they killed a politically sensitive news story involving corruption allegations that might have made the Obama campaign look bad. that just before last Election Day, regarding Obama and ACORN. According to the American Spectator, this admission, which came seven months after NYT staff reporter Stephanie Strom’s reporting about possibly illegal coordination between the Obama campaign and ACORN last year, took the form of a snarky column from Clark Hoyt, the Old Gray Lady’s “public editor.” Hoyt used the word “nonsense” to describe the allegations of impropriety leveled against ACORN and the Obama campaign.
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Judicial Watch Uncovers New FCC Documents on Fairness Doctrine Debate
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) concerning the “Fairness Doctrine,” a policy abolished in 1987, and other governmental means to limit free speech in the media. Judicial Watch obtained the documents in response to a December 2008 Freedom of Information Act request. More from JW:
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National Organization for Marriage vows to fight back against Perez Hilton’s “bogus copyright claims”
Simon Owens sent me an e-mail mentioning how he got a chance to speak to National Organization for Marriage Director Brian Brown about how his group plans on fighting back against Perez’s DMCA takedown notices.The gossip blogger Perez Hilton, aka Mario Armando Lavandeira sent DMCA takedown notices for a YouTube video because it shows three seconds from his video blog. But does the ad constitute fair use?
Michael Savage BANNED FROM U.K.! Will Sue the Brits
I’m starting to wonder if Hussein Obama’s treatment of Gordon Brown and the Queen was really such a bad thing after all? I suppose, the Obamunists got the Brits to go after Savage and put him on a list filled with murderers and terrorists. Jeremiah Wright is not on the list, nor is a panoply of other hate-mongers from the Left, from Garofalo to Ron Howard, the Catholic-bashing movie maker or Bill Ayers. I ain’t a big fan of the Savage myself, but anytime someone is banned it is bad for freedom of expression and speech, I mean WTF is this? Iran? Can we ban some Brits now? We can start with Russell Brand.
The debut of the ‘NEW’ Fairness Doctorine – coming to a radio station near you!
Coming soon to a radio station near you, the ‘NEW’ “Fairness” Doctrines”, called “media diversity”. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released the names of the thirty-one members of their Advisory Committee On Diversity For Communications In The Digital Age. According to NewsBusters, this May 7 gathering is made up of a laundry list of left-wing grievance groups, with a smattering of radio and television companies included to break up the monotony.
The road to censorship – DeMint bill passes 87-11. The bad news? so does Durbin’s
From Sen. Jim DeMint’s office:
Today, at 2pm, the Senate will vote on two amendments with respect to the Fairness Doctrine.
- The DeMint amendment (Broadcaster Freedom Act) would ban the Fairness Doctrine.
- The amendment by Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) would achieve the same goals of the Fairness Doctrine through backdoor FCC regulations. His legislation forces the FCC to “take actions to encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership,” an attempt to dismantle successful syndicated radio programs. The Durbin amendment would hurt small, local radio stations who depend on popular syndicated programming for listeners and revenue.
Here’s an article that seems to get at what Durbin’s amendment is about.
Senator DeMint will encourage all senators to OPPOSE the Durbin Amendment.
The Duct Tape Brigade is out there in full force.
Eternal vigilance is required.
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Update 1:30pm Eastern. The DeMint amendment passes 87-11, but as Sen. DeMint Tweets: “Our ban on Fairness Doctrine passes 87-11. But fight not over, Dems have attacked from back door on media ownership, localism.”
More from The Hill.
Durbin’s measure passed 57-41.
Here are the rolls for DeMint’s and Durbin’s bills; the latter, unsurprisingly, was party-line. Durbin himself voted for DeMint’s amendment, as did Debbie Stabenow — who, you’ll recall, was calling for hearings on bringing back Fairness as recently as three weeks ago.
Sen. Jim DeMint to force whiny Democrats hand on Fairness Doctorine
The South Carolina Republican’s bill, the Broadcaster Freedom Act, is cosponsored by John Thune, R-S.D., and 27 others and will be offered as an amendment to the D.C. Voting Rights bill…
Sen. DeMint stated: “I’m glad President Obama finally confirmed his opposition to the Fairness Doctrine, which attacks the right of free speech on talk radio, but many Democrats in Congress are still pushing it.
“With the support of the new administration, now is the time for Congress to take a stand against this kind of censorship. I intend to seek a vote on this amendment next week so every senator is on record: Do you support free speech or do you want to silence voices you disagree with?”
Camille Paglia (democrat) actually speaks the truth about the censorship, err Fairness Doctrine
Ever been to one of those Brazilian restaurants where they bring out plate after plate of nothing but red meat? Steaks, chops, sausages — all you can eat, until you’re glassy-eyed from the sheer red-meatiness of it all. This clip is that restaurant.
Now Bill Clinton wants the censorship, err Fairness Doctorine! Wheres Monica when we need her?
Yet another figment of your overactive wingnut imagination. I always wondered if that Inhofe story about Hillary and Barbara Boxer kibbitzing about Fairness was true. Hmmmmm. Exit question: If Billy Jeff is so concerned about this, why didn’t he push it circa 1993? Click the image to listen.
Guess what? Another democrats cries that we need that “Fairness Doctorine”. This time its Tom Harkin or Iowa!
Debbie Stabenow may now be backing away from the Fairness Doctrine, but another progressive Senator has taken her place. Tom Harkin (D-IA) tells Bill Press that he wants the federal government to open markets for the liberal talker that Press can’t get on his own:
But on the brighter side, Jeff Sessions tells Mark Levin: “Darned right we’ll filibuster the Fairness Doctrine”. WELL DUH! You’d better!
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