Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

After Columbine, Eric Holder Advocated Internet "Restrictions"

Posted by timothy on from the but-that-was-then-and-this-is-now dept.

ErikTheRed writes "In an audio clip discovered by NewsBusters, then-Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder advocated federal censorship of the Internet. This was in the aftermath of the Columbine High School shootings. From the clip: 'The court has really struck down every government effort to try to regulate it. We tried with regard to pornography. It is gonna be a difficult thing, but it seems to me that if we can come up with reasonable restrictions, reasonable regulations in how people interact on the Internet, that is something that the Supreme Court and the courts ought to favorably look at.'" Holder is reported to be Barack Obama's choice for Attorney General of the United States.

3 of 430 comments (clear)

  1. Change by isotope23 · · Score: 5, Funny

    All your CHANGE is belong to us....

    Welcome to the Obamanation.

    --
    Service guarantees Citizenship! Questions Guarantee GITMO.... Amerika Uber Alles!
  2. Re:oblig by tnk1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Once again, who deemed the internet to be appropriate for children?

    I hear that Internet has the prestigious Pedobear Seal of Approval(tm).

  3. Par for the course by realinvalidname · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good to see that Obama is sticking with Presidential tradition:

    1. Find the most singularly disturbing, deranged, freedom-hating person you can
    2. Nominate that person as Attorney General

    Hey, it worked for Reno, Ashcroft, and Gonzales. The hits keep on coming...