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White House Pressuring Registrars To Block Sites
An anonymous reader writes "While the Senate is still debating a bill that would force registrars and ISPs to block access to sites deemed 'infringing,' it appears that the White House's IP Czar is already holding meetings with ISPs, registrars and payment processors to start voluntarily blocking access to sites it doesn't like. Initially, they're focused on online pharmacies, but does anyone think it will only be limited to such sites? ICANN apparently has refused to attend the meetings, pointing out that they're 'inappropriate.' Doesn't it seem wrong for the US government to be pushing private companies to censor the Internet without due process?"
Do you even know what socialism is? Because it isn't this.
Nazi Germany was not at all socialist. Today's China is barely socialist.
Education is your friend.
The fact that they called themselves socialist doesn't mean they were, they were fascists
Make a man a fire and he will be warm for a day, set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life
YOU might want to look up your history friend, like say Ernst Rohm who was executed along with the other socialists during "the night of the long knives" because Hitler had already gotten support of the major German businesses. What Hitler had was fascism, and he simply used socialism as a buzzword to gain power, just as what we are seeing here. Western Europe is socialist, what we are seeing is "by the corporation, for the corporation" which I'd say is an equal mix of totalitarianism, fascism, and oligarchy, but it has as much to do with socialism as the tea party has to do with which finger to hold up when you're sipping your Earl Gray.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
The fact that they called themselves socialist doesn't mean they were, they were fascists
Exactly! Most people who claim Nazis were socialists because they called themselves socialists should be informed that the coalition of Marxists, Anarchists, Syndicalists, and Liberals who fought together in the Spanish Civil War called themselves...Republicans!
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
Burning Qurans is not "free speech" --- it's hate speech, and you fucking know it.
The protections of the First Amendment apply to unpopular, distasteful, and disgusting speech just as to any other. Popular speech doesn't need protection.
Moderate drunk! It's more fun that way!