SCARY -Congress Moves To Destroy Netroots

[drummer55]

Congress Moves To Destroy Netroots

WThe Federal Election Commission "next month will begin looking at tightening restrictions on political activities in cyberspace, a controversial move that makes some FEC officials uneasy," Roll Call reports.

"Specifically, the FEC is planning to examine the question of how Internet activities, when coordinated with candidates' campaigns, fit into the definition of 'public communications.'"

http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/2/14/164335/880#readmore

[Marnieworld]

1. Secret Rightwing Agenda Unearthed -# 1-Control the Media

Read this today on Bernhard Weiner's Crisis papers. It lists the plan of the GOP right now and it mentions just this type of thing. It sucks that we even know what they are doing and yet we haven't stopped them yet.

"But, in addition to not having full and consistent control of some of the larger-circulation newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, et al.) -- the liberal bastions in the Blue states -- we definitely do not exercise adequate control of the one fully free press in the country: the internet. There are numerous liberal/socialist websites and bloggers out there dedicated to our ruin.

It is necessary, therefore, to rein in the internet. This can be accomplished in a wide variety of ways -- either doing what we did earlier to the other media forms, buying them up and bringing them into line, or declaring a kind of “national security” martial law and take them over as “detrimental to the war effort.” And, since our “war on terrorism” is designed to be permanent, our intervention will last forever. By and large, our friends run the large servers (AOL, Comcast, Microsoft, etc.), so it shouldn’t be too difficult to accomplish this technically."

http://crisispapers.org/essays-w/agenda.htm

[rniel]

2. If we ever lose the internet

WE'VE LOST IT ALL!!!

This is the last place where freedom still exists.

Still they can only shut down sites in this country. Unless they first take over the world.