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InfoWars.net wrote:You'd be forgiven for thinking that it was some new restriction on free speech in Communist China. But it isn't. The U.S. Government wants to force bloggers and online grassroots activists to register and regularly report their activities to Congress in the latest astounding attack on the internet and the First Amendment.

http://www.infowars.net/articles/januar ... Prison.htm

The only surprise is that anyone is surprised.

The only surprise is that anyone managed to construe a bill aimed at preventing astroturfing as somehow threatening unpaid bloggers with jail. Quite shocking.

robertzombie wrote:

InfoWars.net wrote:You'd be forgiven for thinking that it was some new restriction on free speech in Communist China. But it isn't. The U.S. Government wants to force bloggers and online grassroots activists to register and regularly report their activities to Congress in the latest astounding attack on the internet and the First Amendment.

http://www.infowars.net/articles/januar ... Prison.htm

In a related story, Congress is reportedly debating a petition tabled by a bi-partisan commitee to change the words of the US national anthem. Lawmakers are considering striking the phrase "land of the free, and the home of the brave", and replacing it with something that indicates that citizens of and visitors to the US should expect to be under close surveillance at all times, that any computer system in use will have keystroke loggers hardwired to report to the Heimatsversicherungsamt, and despite the fact that that the country was founded on a breathtaking piece of theft and terrorism, it is intent on preventing other countries from doing the same.
Always makes me laugh that a country that likes to make a claim for standing up for freedom has the cojones to dictate where people are allowed to go on holiday. Tee hee

Sod all that, let's just bomb the bloody place.

(Dave waits for the door to be kicked in)

Planet Dave wrote:Sod all that, let's just bomb the bloody place.

(Dave waits for the door to be kicked in)

I can't think of a single government list you wouldn't be on

weebleswobble wrote:

Planet Dave wrote:Sod all that, let's just bomb the bloody place.

(Dave waits for the door to be kicked in)

I can't think of a single government list you wouldn't be on

Why thank you, young man.

weebleswobble wrote:

Planet Dave wrote:Sod all that, let's just bomb the bloody place.

(Dave waits for the door to be kicked in)

I can't think of a single government list you wouldn't be on

The Christmas card one?

mmm this is the US all over remember the 60 s if they don't understand they attack or ban

I HAVE TO get out of here.

8.5 wrote:I HAVE TO get out of here.

no honey put yr view its a forum sweetie

I think 8.5 meant the US.

And yes, I would too. I would like to see how they intend to enforce these laws overseas.

So just in case:

BUSH AND HIS LAUGHABLE EXCUSE FOR AN ADMINISTRATION ARE F*CKING C**TS AND SHOULD BE F*CKING SHOT!

Floodgates open.

Dark wrote:I would like to see how they intend to enforce these laws overseas.

Of course, they can't. At least not without the willing collusion and capitulation to the USA of our own political leaders.

Oh, wait...

US policy affects us all and yet only US citizens have a say in the question in the form of the right to vote.
If the US government so wants to rule the world, I think the whole world should be allowed to vote at the US presidential election.
How's that for an idea ?

Leader of the free world my sweet ass.

infowars is ran by a paranoid freak who's radio show is funded by the very government he thinks is trying to take over the world. He is constantly misconstruing information too.

The guy's a pratt with a messiah complex.

nick the stripper wrote:infowars is ran by a paranoid freak who's radio show is funded by the very government he thinks is trying to take over the world. He is constantly misconstruing information too.

Good to know.
Thanks for telling us.

Well obviously people who would criticize the government are haters, anti-government haters, and need to be punished. Nothing to do with what the government does, just blind hate. So i think this should fall under the good hate-laws.

itnAklipse wrote:Well obviously people who would criticize the government are haters, anti-government haters, and need to be punished. Nothing to do with what the government does, just blind hate. So i think this should fall under the good hate-laws.

death to all fanatics then?

itnAklipse wrote:Well obviously people who would criticize the government are haters, anti-government haters, and need to be punished. Nothing to do with what the government does, just blind hate. So i think this should fall under the good hate-laws.

There is a smiley for when you're not being serious you know.

Or are you being serious?

itnAklipse wrote:Well obviously people who would criticize the government are haters, anti-government haters, and need to be punished. Nothing to do with what the government does, just blind hate. So i think this should fall under the good hate-laws.

There's a difference between hating government haters and disliking people who pull "facts" out of their ass.

Dark wrote: BUSH AND HIS LAUGHABLE EXCUSE FOR AN ADMINISTRATION ARE F*CKING C**TS AND SHOULD BE F*CKING SHOT!

Floodgates open.

Oh dear Dark, I love you so you can come hide behind me.

I'll shoot him.

markfiend wrote:

itnAklipse wrote:Well obviously people who would criticize the government are haters, anti-government haters, and need to be punished. Nothing to do with what the government does, just blind hate. So i think this should fall under the good hate-laws.

There is a smiley for when you're not being serious you know.

Or are you being serious?

Knowing him and his views on politics, he won't use this " " smiley, no

IZ.

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Knowing him and his views on politics, he won't use this " " smiley, no

IZ.

It's a he?

I always thought he was a she.

And discussion of a bill aimed at Conservative radio and corporate astroturfers which was blocked by...conservatives...somehow continues to cause such indignance.

I like the word "astroturfing" in this context. Strangely enough I'd never heard it before about a week ago, elsewhere on a discussion of global warming. Most global-warming-denial sites are astroturf, funded (quite heavily in some cases) by the oil and/or car industries.

For those not in the know; "astroturfing" = fake "grass-roots" support for an issue.