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- In April, the Supreme Court threw out the FCC rule that dictated whether or not internet providers could throttle users of programs like BitTorrent.
- Not happy with the SCOTUS affront to POTUS, last week, the FCC declared that the Internet is a public utility. if this stands, the government can control content -- your free speech, your RIGHT to disagree with the policies of this (or any) government. It makes, as Pamela Geller writes, Obama the Julius Caesar of the Internet.
- Should you worry? Hell yes!
On Saturday in Virginia, Obama gave a speech where he said:
And meanwhile, you’re coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don’t always rank that high on the truth meter. And with iPods and iPads; and Xboxes and PlayStations -- none of which I know how to work -- (laughter) -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation. So all of this is not only putting pressure on you; it’s putting new pressure on our country and on our democracy.
What the hey ?! Free flow of "information" is putting pressure on our democracy?
This is a very disturbing set of events.
yeah....I like how he bought out two thirds of the mainstream media to support him during his campaign and manipulated the youth of our nation through onine propoganda such as facebook, twitter and youtube. Now he's in China telling students there how the free-flow of info on the internet is so important, yet tells our students in Virginia that the free-flow of info is damaging.
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