Eric Holder on regulating the internet-1999

[swampy]

Here's a statement from Eric Holder suggesting that the Supreme Court should look at regulating the internet.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kerry-picke...speech-web

Looks like we're gonna get an AG that doesn't understand the first Amendment right of freedom of speech. What will "Reasonable Regulation" look like? Who gets to decide what is "reasonable"?

This guy is just too scary for me.

[mick e]

But the "Patriot Act" and the domestic spying program was just fine and dandy with you.

[Gutenberg]

You did not mention that this information is from the Media Research Council, an organization that "exposes left-wing media bias." It was founded and headed by Brent Bozell III, who also founded the Parents Television Council, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Television_Council
which seeks censorship of "indecency" on cable and broadcast television. Must have been an oversight.

So censorship of sexual content is OK and justfine, but censorship of making bombs is not, as far as the righties are concerned. Hmmm.

[swampy]

Mick e, Yep the Patriot Act is fine with me. I got nothing to hide. But then neither did Joe The Plumber and look how liberals took it upon themselves to violate his privacy. Is that not "domestic spying" of the worst kind? At least with the Patriot Act you got something in writing that hints at what the governement can and cannot do. More scary to me are the progressive vigilantes that feel it is somehow their duty to "spy" on people without warrant or due cause.

Gutenberg.. I didn't feel it necessary to research the source. The audio speaks for itself. And so what if it's from an organization that "exposes the left-wing media bias"? Are you saying there IS no media bias? Or are you saying that if there IS, the American citizens aren't entitled to know about it? If the MSM were doing it's job and reporting the news rather than making it up, there wouldn't be a need for such a watchdog group now would there?

Did I say anything about censoring sexual content? Holder's comment was clearly aimed at speech and "how people interact on the internet". I couldn't care less about pornography on the internet. Pornography is just the camel's nose in the tent.

[mattkime]

>>and look how liberals took it upon themselves to violate his privacy.

yeah, and she's being punished. thats the way law works.

just as she doesn't represent all liberals, people who kill doctors that provide abortions don't represent all conservatives.

the patriot act is FAR worse because it allows our gov to spy on us.

[mick e]

So you believed the things they told you, swampy?

You know - the things that they said AFTER they had been caught trafficking LIES?!?!

[swampy]

Matt "yeah, and she's being punished. thats the way law works."

She's just one of a number of people who snooped. Here's the full report in PDF format.

http://www.watchdog.ohio.gov/investigations/2008299.pdf

Our investigation determined that there were 18 separate records checks conducted on
Wurzelbacher following the October 15, 2008, presidential debate. Of those 18 checks, five
were conducted in response to media requests for information and eight were conducted by
various agencies without any legitimate business purpose. (For a complete breakdown, see
Exhibit A.) Fourteen of those checks occurred within 48 hours of the debate. Searches were
conducted on databases maintained by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
(“ODJFS”), the Ohio Attorney General’s Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway (“OHLEG”) system,
the Ohio Department of Public Safety’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles (“BMV”), the Toledo Police
Department, and the Ohio Department of Taxation (“Taxation”).

Also interesting. A former Ohio Office of Atty Gen. IT employee accessed JTP's information. Seems the OAG office did not terminate his account password. Houston, we have a security problem!

The report is interesting reading.

[Wags]

Did someone mention camel toes?!?

[Lux Interior]

swampy wrote:
I couldn't care less about pornography on the internet.

Thank you for using that expression correctly.

[Stizzealth]

Eww, stay away from my keyboard, Mr. Holder.