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30% of Americans Want "Balanced" Blogging
Cutie Pi writes "In a recent Rasmussen poll looking at the public's attitudes toward a possible revival of the fairness doctrine by the Democrats, a surprisingly large percentage of those polled seek fairness doctrine mandates (originally intended for public airwaves) to cover the Internet as well. It is encouraging that a minority of people feel that way, but Democrats say 'hands-off the Internet ... by a far smaller margin than Republicans and unaffiliated voters. Democrats oppose government-mandated balance on the Internet by a 48% to 37% margin. Sixty-one percent (61%) of Republicans reject government involvement in Internet content along with 67% of unaffiliated voters.'"
Zoning and import/export laws legislate morality? Also, we have laws against murder, theft, rape and child molestation because one person harms another by doing any of those, not because any of them are immoral.
Or, to turn it around, are you saying that since we have laws against murder then we should also have laws against alcohol possession? Should we make lying (the outside of the courtroom kind, not perjury) illegal or make having naughty thoughts illegal? And whose morality gets legislated? People who think women appearing in public without a burqua on are immoral?
Help me out here. What do you mean? Or are you just repeating standard right-wing bullshit?
I feel like death on a soda cracker.
Actually, he's repeating standard left-wing bullshit.
I'm a Programmer. That's one level above Software Engineer and one level below Engineer.
There is no debate and never was, only propaganda. Your comment and moderation shows the incredibly frightening state of ignorance about science and logic in America.
I don't see how. All I said (which is mathematically correct) is that "something not being supported by evidence doesn't necessarily make it invalid."
I never said anything about said "thing" (which I never specified) being a science or not. You're reading into it.