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Could Obama Silence The Free Press?
Exclusive: Jim Fletcher warns of Big Brother’s attempts to clamp down
Far-reaching initiatives often start in relative obscurity. Such is the potential effect of a bill introduced by in the New York State Senate.
Evidently, we’ve moved a long way from Ben Franklin and his Silence Dogood persona. If you are a writer of any sort online, you might not have the option much longer of remaining anonymous.
Everyone understands that the Internet can be used for good or bad. Likewise, anonymity can be good or bad: See Franklin or Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.” Writers like Paine knew that going public with a name would invite a swinging rope.
Today, however, online posting presents certain pitfalls, namely, bullying. As with certain medical treatments, though, the treatment can often be worse than the disease. The New York Senate bill could end posting online!
Sen. Thomas F. O’Mara, from Big Flats, N.Y., has introduced S6779, requiring an anonymous post to be removed if the poster won’t subsequently provide legal name, IP address and a home address!
From the actual bill: “A web site administrator upon request shall remove any comments posted on his or her web site by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal name and home address are accurate. All web site administrators shall have a contact number or e-mail address posted for such removal requests, clearly visible in any sections where comments are posted.”
It’s pretty obvious that someone up there in New York doesn’t fully understand the Internet, or the full implications. Posting a home address, of course, could be extremely dangerous.
Now, to be sure, some online comments sections are becoming warzones. The safe confines of one’s computer in one’s own home is producing a generation of pseudo-William Wallaces, who let the keys fly in posting vicious, cruel responses. Chats and other comment sections often descend into bitter name-calling that destroy the original intent of the conversation.
The only free press left in the United States is the American public themselves. The televised spineless liberals who call themselves “reporters” are bought and sold prostitutes/talking heads and nothing more.
RetiredRogue…. About three months ago I read an article about ””THE ONE””’ will sign Ex. Order to stop anyone in the United States from saying anything negative about Islam. The United Nations is trying put that into effect through much of the rest of the world, I believe there was a pact made between our pRESIDENT IN CHIEF and the UN as soon as he steals ( I me wins ) the election through voting machines. You notice ”’THE ONE”’ is still talking about the Islamic video sturing up violence in Libya. He’s got cause as much damage as he can to TRY and take part of our first amendment away.
The Left wants to silence anyone who disagrees with them by calling it hate speech. They are the chicks with dicks party.