Eric Holder Calls For “Reasonable Restrictions” On Internet Speech (Video)

[stephanie]

scratch a Liberal find a Fascist..

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[hjmick]

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[5stringJeff]

I can think of almost no reasonable restrictions on speech. Yelling "Fire" in a crowded building is all I can come up with. If the knowledge exists on how to make bombs, then people are going to find out. You can't tell every American not to repeat those instructions.

[Mr. P]

WTF is “Reasonable" speech?

Is is like a "voluntary" income tax?

Good gawd these fuckin government MORONS!!! Errrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!

[Missileman]

scratch a Liberal find a Fascist..

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Steph...this is almost ten years old. Anything more recent?

[Little-Acorn]

Steph...this is almost ten years old. Anything more recent?

A more relevant question: Is there anything to indicate that Holder has changed his mind about this?

Holder is one, but the Obama has made himself clear, well as 'clear' as he'll get:

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/obama_declares_war_on_conserva.html


November 17, 2008
Obama Declares War on Conservative Talk Radio

By Jim Boulet, Jr.
Barack Obama sought to silence his critics during his 2008 campaign. Now, with the ink barely dry on this November's ballots, Obama has begun a war against conservative talk radio.

Obama is on record as saying he does not plan an exhumation of the now-dead "Fairness Doctrine". Instead, Obama's attack on free speech will be far less understood by the general public and accordingly, far more dangerous.

The late community organizer Saul Alinsky taught his followers to strike hard from an unexpected direction, an approach known as Alinsky jujitsu.

Obama himself not only worked as an organizer for an Alinsky offshoot organization, Chicago's Developing Communities Project, but would go on to teach classes in Alinsky's beliefs and methods.

"Alinsky jujitsu" as applied to conservative talk radio means using vague rules already on the books to threaten any station which dares to air conservative programs with the loss of its valuable broadcast license.

Team Obama and the "localism" weapon

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule in question is called "localism." Radio and television stations are required to serve the interests of their local community as a condition of keeping their broadcast licenses.

Obama needs only three votes from the five-member FCC to define localism in such a way that no radio station would dare air any syndicated conservative programming.

Localism is one of the rare issues on which Obama himself has been outspoken.

On September 20, 2007, Obama submitted a pro-localism written statement to an FCC hearing held at the Chicago headquarters of Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.'s Operation Push.

Furthermore, the Obama transition team knows all about the potential of localism as a means of silencing conservative dissent. The head of the Obama transition team is John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress.

In 2007, the Center for American Progress issued a report, The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio. This report complained that there was too much conservative talk on the radio because of "the absence of localism in American radio markets" and urged the FCC to "[e]nsure greater local accountability over radio licensing.

Podesta's choice as head of the Federal Communications Commission's transition team is Henry Rivera.

Since 1994, Rivera has been chairman of the Minority Media Telecommunications Council. This organization has specific ideas about localism:

I
n other words, it would not do for broadcasters to meet with the business leaders whose companies advertise on their station. Broadcasters must reach beyond the business sector and look for leaders in the civic, religious, and non-profit sectors that regularly serve the needs of the community, particularly the needs of minority groups that are typically poorly served by the broadcasting industry as a whole.

Rivera's law firm is also the former home of Kevin Martin, the current FCC chairman. Martin is himself an advocate of more stringent localism requirements.

It was on Martin's watch that on January 24, 2008, the FCC released its proposed localism regulations. According to TVNewsday: "At the NAB radio show two weeks ago, Martin said that he wanted to take action on localism this year and invited broadcasters to negotiate requirements with him."
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